Socrates Greek Philosopher Quotations

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.