Socrates

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

Socrates

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Socrates

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

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

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Socrates

Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.

Socrates

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

Socrates

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Socrates