Socrates Quotes

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.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

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

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?