Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greekphilosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
harm oneself
To harm another is to harm oneself
rights care opinion
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
mind might poet
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
thinking
We are what we think we are
needs known values
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
wind may cold
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
fool knows smarter
I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
friendship giving greek
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
law made
Laws are not made for the good.
cities teach
Not I, but the city teaches.
good-woman rest-of-your-life philosopher
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
writing men difficulty
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
believe men ridiculous
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
wonder
Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.