Socrates on Patience Quotes

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher."

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"Justice is the only thing that should be considered when acting."

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The mind is everything; what you think you become."

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be."

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

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

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

"Through your rags I see your vanity."

"To be curious is the first step to being wise."

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

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

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"From the deepest desires oft comes the deadliest hate."

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

"Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and every other good of man."

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."