Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greekphilosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
evil soul language
False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.
good-life inspirational-life matter
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
money i-can can-do
How many things I can do without!
pain men good-man
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.
wisdom thinking pay
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
men self doe
This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
odds world whole-world
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,
cities community urban
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
sleep men good-man
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
men life-is-like dew
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
soul body regard
The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
lying goal limits
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
heart healing mirrors
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
wise men grieving
I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.