“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ―Socrates
“Be as you wish to seem.” ―Socrates
“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” ―Socrates
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” ―Socrates
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” ―Socrates
“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.” ―Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ―Socrates
“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” ―Socrates
“A multitude of books distracts the mind.” ―Socrates
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” ―Socrates
“The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.” ―Socrates
“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.” ―Socrates
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.” ―Socrates
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” ―Socrates
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” ―Socrates
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” ―Socrates
“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ―Socrates
“Know thyself.” ―Socrates
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ―Socrates
“Be as you wish to seem.” ―Socrates