Socrates: Trending quotes

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

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“To be sure, for he has never learnt to speak well.”

“O Hercules! what a number of lies the young man has told about me.”

“The man who eats with the greatest appetite has the least need of delicacies.”

“He who drinks with the greatest appetite is the least inclined to look for a draught which is not at hand.”

“Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.”

“It is a good thing for a man to offer himself cheerfully to the attacks of the comic writers; for then, if they say anything worth hearing, one will be able to mend; and if they do not, then all they say is unimportant.”

“Suppose an ass had kicked me, would you have had me bring an action against him?”

“For actors on the stage, but not for men.”

“O Euclid, you will acquire a power of managing sophists, but not of governing men.”

“Did you suppose that so noble a man must be born of two Athenians?”

“To avoid excess in everything.”

“Be of good cheer; for if our guests are sensible men, they will bear with us; and if they are not, we need not care about them.”

“Do you not perceive that you are giving me what is of the greatest value?”

“And nature has condemned them.”

“Would you, then, have had me deserve death?”

“Did I not say that Xanthippe was thundering now, and would soon rain?”

“But I am used to it, just as I should be if I were always hearing the noise of a pulley; and you yourself endure to hear geese cackling.”