Quotes by Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. >>

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. >>

Call no man unhappy until he is married. >>

Quotations about Respectability

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability >>

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. >>

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their >>

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Socrates