I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds
Socrates
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Socrates
Contentment is natural wealth, LUXURY is artificial poverty.
Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.