Quotes by Socrates

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.