"Socrates Thoughts"

• A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
• All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
• An honest man is always a child.
• As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
• As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
• Be as you wish to seem.
• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
• Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
• 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.
• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
• From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
• He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
• He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.