Socrates of Athens Quotes

“Anyone who's really fighting for justice must live a private life as a citizen and not as a public figure if he's going to survive even a short time.”
― Plato, Socrates of Athens: Euthyphro / Socrates' Defense / Crito / Death Scene from Phaedo

“Death may even be the greatest of all good things for a human being - no one knows, yet people fear it as if they knew for sure that it's the greatest of bad things.”
― Plato, Socrates of Athens: Euthyphro / Socrates' Defense / Crito / Death Scene from Phaedo

“is there anyone who believes in the existence of divine things, but not in the existence of divinities?”
― Plato, Socrates of Athens: Euthyphro / Socrates' Defense / Crito / Death Scene from Phaedo

“So I appear to be wiser, at least than him, in just this one small respect: that when I don't know things, I don't think that I do either.”
― Plato, Socrates of Athens: Euthyphro / Socrates' Defense / Crito / Death Scene from Phaedo