By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

— Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

— Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

— Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

— Socrates

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.

— Socrates

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

— Socrates

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

— Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

— Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

— Socrates