"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
Socrates
"How many are the things I can do without!"
Socrates
"An honest man is always a child."
Socrates
"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."
Socrates
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
Socrates
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
Socrates
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
Socrates
"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."
Socrates
"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."
Socrates
"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."
Socrates
"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."
Socrates
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Socrates