Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.Collection: Life
False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.Collection: Evil
Talk in order that I may see you.Collection: Order
Be true to thine own self.Collection: Inspirational
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.Collection: Death
Virtue is the beauty of the soul.Collection: Soul
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.Collection: Caring
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.Collection: Music
There is but one evil, ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.Collection: Dark
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.Collection: Men
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.Collection: Odds
YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERSCollection: Causes
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.Collection: Writing
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.Collection: Secret
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.Collection: Men
The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.Collection: Real
Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?Collection: Ass
I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.Collection: Wise
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.Collection: Magnificence
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.Collection: Poet
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?Collection: Clever
The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.Collection: Hunger
I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.Collection: Believe
...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.Collection: Blessing
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.Collection: Wisdom
All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.Collection: Foundation
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.Collection: Ridiculous
I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.Collection: Wise
To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.Collection: Life
I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.Collection: Life
How many things I can do without!Collection: Life
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Inspirational
The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.Collection: Soul
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.Collection: Fall
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'Collection: Needs
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.Collection: Inspiration
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.Collection: Years
This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.Collection: Men
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.Collection: Wise
The only thing I know is that I know nothingCollection: Inspirational
I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?Collection: Farewell
It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.Collection: Eye
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.Collection: Sports
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.Collection: Beautiful
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.Collection: Inspirational
By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.Collection: Beautiful