SOCRATES, The Master
Poor Socrates was forced to commit suicide; he was required to drink hemlock after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
– Socrates
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
-Socrates
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Be as you wish to seem.
– Socrates
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
—Socrates.
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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
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
– Socrates
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
– Socrates
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How many things I can do without.
– Socrates
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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.
—Socrates.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
– Socrates, during his trial
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“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves”
~Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
– Socrates
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing
you know nothing.”
― Socrates
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
-Socrates
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The fewer our wants, the more we resemble the gods.
– Socrates
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
-Socrates
I found this in Facebook. I am not sure if this was really a Socratic work but it is worth a read even for just the fun of it.
In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?”
“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied. “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Test of Three.”
“Test of Three?”
“That’s right,” Socrates continued. “Before you talk to me about my student let’s take a moment to test what you’re going to say. The first test is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
No,” the man said, “actually I just heard about It.”
“All right,” said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?”
“No, on the contrary…”
“So,” Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him even though you’re not certain it’s true?”
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
Socrates continued. “You may still pass though, b ecause there is a third test – the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?”
The man was defeated and ashamed. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem. It also explains why he never found out that Plato was banging his wife.
Socrates was not a philosopher for nothing!