Socrates Quotes on Socrates
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. (ho de anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi)
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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.
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
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I drank what?
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If anyone thinks that Socrates is proven to have lied about his daimon because the jury condemned him to death when he stated that a divinity revealed to him what he should and should not do, then let him take note of two things: first, that Socrates was so far advanced in age that he would have died soon, if not then; and second, that he escaped the most bitter part of life, when all men's mental powers diminish.
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
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'I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.'