The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Science says ‘We must live,’ and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says ‘We must die,’ and seeks how to make us die well.
Socrates
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Socrates
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates