Category Quotations

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…

Socrates says: “And a thing is not seen because it is visible, but conversely, visible because it is seen; nor is a thing led because it is in the state of being led, or carried because it is in the…