Socrates Quotes

Nothing that other people can do to you can harm you enough to cancel out the benefit you bestow on yourself by acting rightly. It follows that bad people ultimately harm only themselves: nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death

"Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La verdadera Sabiduría está en reconocer la propia ignorancia" (Sócrates)"

Those who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.

Criton - Le principe, que l'important n'est pas de vivre, mais de bien vivre.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance

My method is to call in support of my statements the evidence of a single witness, the man I am arguing with, and to take his vote alone; the rest of the world are nothing to me; I am not talking to them.

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return.

Critón, le debemos un gallo a Asclepio. ¿Te acordarás de pagar la deuda?

Nuestra juventud de ahora ama el lujo. Tiene malos modales, desprecia la autoridad; le falta el respeto a sus
mayores y le encanta charlar en lugar de trabajar; ya no se levanta cuando un adulto entra en la sala; contradice a sus padres, charla ante las visitas, engulle la comida y tiraniza a sus maestros

Η κατανόηση μιας ερώτησης είναι η μισή απάντηση.

Đó là một câu hỏi phức tạp, mà đời người thì ngắn ngủi.

"Someone might say: " Are you not ashamed, Socrates, to have followed the kind of occupation that has led to your being now in danger of death?" Howeverm, I should be right to reply to him: "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man

Ik weet één ding, dat ik niets weet

Surely this is the objectionable kind of ignorance, to think one knows
what one does not know? But in this, gentlemen, here also perhaps I
am different from the general run of mankind, and if I should claim
to be wiser than someone in something it would be in this, that as I
do not know well enough about what happens in the house of Hades,
so I do not think I know.

Y si el oráculo ha nombrado a Sócrates, sin duda se ha valido de mí nombre como un ejemplo, y como si dijese a todos los hombres: «El más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada».