A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates