Socrates Quotes
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201. “Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”

— Socrates

202. “To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.”

— Socrates

203. “Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.”

— Socrates

204. “In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”

— Socrates

205. “The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.”

— Socrates

206. “The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”

— Socrates

207. “I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.”

— Socrates

208. “It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”

— Socrates

209. “Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.”

— Socrates

210. “Laws are not made for the good.”

— Socrates

211. “Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.”

— Socrates

212. “In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.”

— Socrates

213. “When a woman is allowed to become a man’s equal, she becomes his superior.”

— Socrates

214. “By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.”

— Socrates

215. “If at first you don’t succeed, avoid skydiving.”

— Socrates

216. “To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.”

— Socrates

217. “You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.”

— Socrates

218. “May the outward and inward man be at one.”

— Socrates

219. “The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.”

— Socrates

220. “If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”

— Socrates

221. “But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.”

— Socrates

222. “I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.”

— Socrates

223. “There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.”

— Socrates

224. “There is no illness of the body except for the mind.”

— Socrates

225. “To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.”

— Socrates

226. “How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.”

— Socrates

227. “There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.”

— Socrates

228. “Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.”

— Socrates

229. “Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.”

— Socrates

230. “One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”

— Socrates

231. “If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”

— Socrates

232. “We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.”

— Socrates

233. “Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

— Socrates

234. “Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.”

— Socrates

235. “God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.”

— Socrates

236. “The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.”

— Socrates

237. “They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”

— Socrates

238. “And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels – temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth – she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.”

— Socrates

239. “Go wherever the facts lead.”

— Socrates

240. “If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.”

— Socrates

241. “Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.”

— Socrates

242. “False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.”

— Socrates

243. “A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.”

— Socrates

244. “An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.”

— Socrates

245. “All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth.”

— Socrates

246. “It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.”

— Socrates

247. “Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.”

— Socrates

248. “Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.”

— Socrates

249. “The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.”

— Socrates

250. “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.”

— Socrates