More quotes by Socrates

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"
"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."
"Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house."
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."