Socrates
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.Collection: Silence
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.Collection: Citizens
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.Collection: Writing
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.Collection: Philosophy
The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.Collection: Perfect
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.Collection: Change
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.Collection: Compassion
There's no good answer to a question you didn't hearCollection: Answers
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at allCollection: Want
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.Collection: Life
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.Collection: Food
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.Collection: Errors
I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.Collection: Long
Through your rags I see your vanity.Collection: Vanity
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.Collection: Hurt
The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.Collection: Important
Wisest is he who knows he knows not.Collection: Knows
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.Collection: War
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a houseCollection: Army
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.Collection: Moving
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Collection: Inspirational
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.Collection: Death
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.Collection: Airplane
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.Collection: Horse
The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.Collection: Practice
Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.Collection: Ignorance
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.Collection: Nature
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?Collection: Numbers
Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.Collection: Eye
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.Collection: Philosophy
Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?Collection: Children
I call that man idle who might be better employed.Collection: Men
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.Collection: Knowledge
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.Collection: Real
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.Collection: Men
An unexamined life is a life of no account.Collection: Philosophical
When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.Collection: Hurt
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.Collection: Money
Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.Collection: Names
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.Collection: God
I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.Collection: Immortality
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.Collection: Wise
I only know that I know nothingCollection: Knows
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.Collection: Evil
All that we know is nothing can be known.Collection: Knows
For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.Collection: Men
I know what I do not know.Collection: Knowledge
So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?Collection: Suffering