Category Quotations

Socrates says: “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

Socrates says: “From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”

Socrates says: “For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest…

Socrates says: “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Socrates says: “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”

Socrates says: “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

Socrates says: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Socrates says: “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don’t know what justice is, I’ll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it…

Socrates says: “Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?”

Socrates says: “And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one…