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
law people parent
What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?
teacher luxury people
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
adversity people would-be
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
drinking people cooking
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
people wish might
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
philosophy people dying
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.
errors people deception
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
men people greek
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
people greek source
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
mistake people care
I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
girl thinking people
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
wisdom people force
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
thinking people want
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
appear experience honor human increase practice reality shortest strengthen surest themselves virtues
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.