Socrates on Fear Quotes

"I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live."

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

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

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

"Is it not a base thing to be afraid of a shadow?"

"Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man."

"Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?"

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing."

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end we should hear and see more than we speak."

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

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

"Is not the fear of death a kind of belief that one is wise when one is not?"

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

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"For the fear of death is indeed the imitation of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being an appearance of knowing the unknown."

"The soul, when it is purified, is not afraid to leave the body."

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

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

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"No one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

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

"The fear of death is only another form of thinking that we are wise when we are not."

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"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."

"Courage is a sort of endurance of the soul."

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

"A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong."

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