"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on Death and Dying
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 6 fans >>

"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"

Socrates on Death and Dying
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

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

Socrates on Death and Dying
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 6 fans >>

"If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded."

Socrates on Debate
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"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 on Deception
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on Desire
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."

Socrates on Desire
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Socrates on Dishonesty
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 4 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men."

Socrates on Education
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"

Socrates on Education
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 5 fans >>

"Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think."

Socrates on Enjoyment
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."

Socrates on Envy
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance."

Socrates on Evil
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."

Socrates on Fame
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?"

Socrates on Famous Last Words
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on Feminism
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 6 fans >>

"Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

Socrates on Food and Eating
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Socrates on Friends and Friendship
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 6 fans >>

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

Socrates on Glory
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Socrates on Good and Evil
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"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 on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."

Socrates on Greed
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on Growth
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Happiness is unrepentant pleasure."

Socrates on Happiness
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Call no man unhappy until he is married."

Socrates on Happiness
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>