More quotes by Socrates

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."