Socrates470–399 BCThe quotations of
Socrates
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
470–399 BC
34 quotes, most often on Wisdom, Money and Philosophy. Part of the Philosophers collection.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought
to be.Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
- Plato, Republic, 493a
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
PhaedoI am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch- Gorgias, 482c
- Diogenes Laertius
- Plato, Symposium, 175d
