•“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” 
― Socrates

•“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” 
― Socrates

•“The unexamined life is not worth living.” 
― Socrates

•“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think” 
― Socrates

•“To find yourself, think for yourself.” 
― Socrates

•“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” 
― Socrates

•“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” 
― Socrates

•“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” 
― Socrates

•“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” 
― Socrates

•“Let him who would move the world first move himself.” 
― Socrates

•“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” 
― Socrates

•“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.” 
― Socrates

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

•“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.” 
― Socrates

•“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.” 
― Socrates

•“And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all.” 
― Socrates

•“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.” 
― Socrates

•“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” 
― Socrates

•“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

•“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” 
― Socrates

•“An unconsidered life is not one worth living.” 
― Socrates

•“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.” 
― Socrates

•“The hottest love has the coldest end.” 
― Socrates

•“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” 
― Socrates

•“Be as you wish to seem.” 
― Socrates

•“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.” 
― Socrates

•“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.” 
― Socrates

•“I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. ” 
― Socrates

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

•“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state” 
― Socrates

•“I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.” 
― Socrates

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

•“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” 
― Socrates

•“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.” 
― Socrates

•“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” 
― Socrates

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

•“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.” 
― Socrates

•“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.” 
― Socrates

•“Through your rags I see your vanity.” 
― Socrates

•“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.” 
― Socrates

•“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.” 
― Socrates

•“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” 
― Socrates