Socrates on Strength Quotes

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

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

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

"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."

"I call him the strongest who is able to control his own passions."

"An honest man is always a child."

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

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

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

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not."

"No man has a 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 nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

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

"Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me."

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

"Justice is the excellence of the soul."

"The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness."

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

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

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue."

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

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

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong."

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

"Is it not a shame for a man to be in such a condition that he does not know what he can do, because he has never tried?"