Best Socrates 34 Brilliant Audio Quotes Wise Words Ideas Thinking, Friendship, Change

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

“ Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.” – Socrates

“ The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.” – Socrates

“ Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” – Socrates

“ You should eat to live; not live to eat.” – Socrates

“ Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” – Socrates

“ Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” – Socrates

“ If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.” – Socrates

“ Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.” – Socrates

“ Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.” – Socrates

“ The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” – Socrates

“ The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” – Socrates

“ People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Socrates

“ Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“ When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” – Socrates

“ The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.” – Socrates

“ The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates

“ 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.” – Socrates

“ Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” – Socrates

“ The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. ” – Socrates

“ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” – Socrates

“ The mind is everything; what you think you become” – Socrates

“ Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.” – Socrates

“ It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.” – Socrates

“ Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.” – Socrates

“ Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”– Socrates

“ By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you’ll become happy, while if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

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

“ If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.”― Socrates

“ In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.” – Socrates

“ Real wisdom is the property of God, and human wisdom has little or no value.”― Socrates

“ No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.” – Socrates

“ I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”― Socrates