Socrates Quotes

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say – ‘How many things I have no need of!’.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.

If I could get to the highest place in Athens, I would raise my voice and say, “What mean ye, fellow citizens, that ye turn every stone to scrape wealth together, and take so little care of your children to whom ye must one day relinquish it all!”

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which he will, he is sure to repent.