Socrates Good Quotations

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.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.