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A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates - [Books and Reading]
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates - [Morality]
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
Socrates - [Education]
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates - [Life and Living]
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates - [Friends and Friendship]
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates - [Beauty]
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Socrates - [Marriage]
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Socrates - [Happiness]
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates - [Contentment]
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Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Socrates - [Famous Last Words]
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates - [Death and Dying]
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates - [Writers and Writing]
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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
Socrates - [Enjoyment]
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates - [Dishonesty]
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates - [Fame]
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates - [Hatred]
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
Socrates - [Control]
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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates - [Happiness]
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He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
Socrates - [Contentment]
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates - [Riches]
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