Socrates (470 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek philosopher. He was one of the founders of Western philosophy. His students were Plato and Xenophon.
苏格拉底（前470年－前399年），古希腊哲学家，他被认为是西方哲学的奠基者，柏拉图及色诺芬是其学生。
1765. To find yourself, think for yourself. 中文 / Chinese：
要寻找自己，为自己想。
1766. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. 中文 / Chinese：
名声是英雄事迹的香水。
1767. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. 中文 / Chinese：
变化的秘密是集中所有精力，不在对抗旧事，但在建立新的。
1768. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. 中文 / Chinese：
宁愿选择知识而不选择财富，因为一个是瞬间的，另外一个是永远的。
1769. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. 中文 / Chinese：
令你生气的事情不要对其他人做。
1770. She soars on her own wings. 中文 / Chinese：
她用自己翅膀高飞。
1771. The unexamined life is not worth living. 中文 / Chinese：
浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过。
1772. Be true to thane own self. 中文 / Chinese：
对你自己真诚。
1773. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. 中文 / Chinese：
美丽是短活的暴政。
1703. No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. 中文 / Chinese：
没有人有权利做一个的生理训练的业馀者。
1704. There is but one evil, ignorance. 中文 / Chinese：
邪恶存在但员有一种，无知道。
1705. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. 中文 / Chinese：
我知道我有智识，因为我知道我什麽也不知道。
1706. Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods. 中文 / Chinese：
那些想要最少的最接近神。
1707. The Spirit is neither good nor bad; it runs where the wild heart leads. Wisdom begins in wonder. 中文 / Chinese：
精神没有好与坏；它随心而走。智慧始於好奇。
1708. Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. 中文 / Chinese：
有些人对享乐，痛苦，渴望，恐惧具有胆量，亦有些人在同样情况下胆怯。
1709. There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. 中文 / Chinese：
没有财物比一个好和忠诚的朋友更可贵。
1710. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. 中文 / Chinese：
当我们明白我们对人生，自己，和这世界理解多麽少的时候，真正智慧便会来到。
1648. In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. 中文 / Chinese：
在我们内里，就算是好人，都有一个不顾法律狂野本质，在睡里跳出来。
1649. The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him. 中文 / Chinese：
哲人一生在寻找死亡，因为这个原因死亡吓不倒他。
1650. To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. 中文 / Chinese：
无求是神圣的，人需要越少越接近神圣。
1651. How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him? 中文 / Chinese：
当一个人被享受支配著，你怎样可以称他为自由。
1652. Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world. 中文 / Chinese：
没有人懂得任何事，但我，什麽也不知，是世界上最聪明的人。
1653. I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. 中文 / Chinese：
我只渴望知道事实，和生活得最好。然後尽最大的力量，勉励所有其他人做同样的事。我勉励你亦加入这伟大的战鬥，它是人生的战鬥，比世上鬥争还要伟大。
1654. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. 中文 / Chinese：
所有人的灵魂是不死的，但正义的灵魂是不死和神圣的。
1556. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. 中文 / Chinese：
至于结婚或独身，让男人走他的路，肯定他会悔悟。
1557. What a lot of things there are a man can do without. 中文 / Chinese：
人有很多东西都不需要。
1558. An honest man is always a child. 中文 / Chinese：
诚实的人总是一个小孩。
1559. One thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover. 中文 / Chinese：
有一样事情我会为它长久地争取，在言语和行动上：我们会更好，更勇敢和更活跃，假若我们相信寻找未知而不是相信不再需要寻找未知，因为我们所不知道的永不会被发现。
1560. If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. 中文 / Chinese：
假如我们继续喜爱没用的辩论，我们可以对抗诡辩家，但永远不知怎样与人生活。
1561. Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil. 中文 / Chinese：
生或死，对一个好人来说没有邪恶。
1562. May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. 中文 / Chinese：
明智的人富有可以吗？我可以拥有一个自我抑制的人能够承受的财富吗？
1530. I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. 中文 / Chinese：
我不会对反对公正的任何人让步，就算害怕死亡，甚至假若我不让步便立刻死亡。
1531. Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. 中文 / Chinese：
用其他人的写作去改善自己。别人很困难地得到的而自己却轻易获得。
1532. “Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. 中文 / Chinese：
我们或任何人都应该设法做到避免死亡，不论任何代价。
1533. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. 中文 / Chinese：
坏人活著为了吃喝，好人吃喝为了活著。
1534. Pride divides the men, humility joins them. 中文 / Chinese：
傲慢分割了人，谦恭接合了他们。
1535. Man must rise above the Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. 中文 / Chinese：
人一定要升至地球大气层上面才可以完全明暸他活在的世界。
1536. When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all. 中文 / Chinese：
当你建议荒谬的事情去相信，太多人选择完全不相信。
1537. Fear of women love more than hates the man. 中文 / Chinese：
害怕女人爱比仇恨男人更多。
1470. Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. 中文 / Chinese：
你做是因为它在你心中。不是因为你想有任何回报。用你的时间从别人的写作中改善自己，那样你容易获得别人艰苦得来的。
1471. A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget neither good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind. 中文 / Chinese：
一个人需要习惯做义工，而不是沉溺於纵情和娱乐，因它们产生对身体的好处和思想的认知。
1472. This is self-knowledge for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know. 中文 / Chinese：
一个人的自知之明是知道他所知的， 和所不知的。
1473. A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death. 中文 / Chinese：
一个好人生时和死後都不能被伤害。
1475. For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good to yourself, but also you are the cause of goodness in others. 中文 / Chinese：
前面除了你还有谁？谁不只说自己是一个好人和绅士，但没有能力去令其他们人好。而你不只对自己好，还有别人好是因为你。
1476. The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself. 中文 / Chinese：
最大的神秘是人自己。
Socrates (470 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek philosopher. He was one of the founders of Western philosophy. His students were Plato and Xenophon.
苏格拉底（前470年－前399年），古希腊哲学家，他被认为是西方哲学的奠基者，柏拉图及色诺芬是其学生。
1441. The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul. 中文 / Chinese：
年月使皮肤起皱纹，缺乏热诚使心灵皱起。
1442. Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. 中文 / Chinese：
不要像叶子被吹来吹去，别说什麽你就相信什麽。
1443. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. 中文 / Chinese：
孩子就像恶霸。他们反驳父母，狼吞虎咽地吃东西，和欺压老师。
1444. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. 中文 / Chinese：
假如一个人为他的财富自豪，他不应当被表扬直至知道他怎样使用它。
1445. The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little. 中文 / Chinese：
一个真的明智的人知道自己懂得很少。
1446. One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. 中文 / Chinese：
人永不应用不好去回报，或亏待任何人，不论曾经怎样被亏待过。
1447. When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior. 中文 / Chinese：
当容许一个女人成为男人的对等，她便成为他的上级。
1448. A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. 中文 / Chinese：
一个人不能没有理由地去安全使用财富，跟他不能没有韁绳去骑马一样。
1421. The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. 中文 / Chinese：
首个伟大的要诀是在现实里显现出我们自己。
1422. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. 中文 / Chinese：
在世上最快速和肯定活得光荣的方法是在现实里显现出我们自己，所有人的美德的增加和增强都是从练习和经验得来的。
1423. False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil. 中文 / Chinese：
虚伪的语言，邪恶在其中，把灵魂也感染了邪恶。
1424. The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. 中文 / Chinese：
灵魂跟身体一样，接受人所选择的习惯支配。
1425. I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty. 中文 / Chinese：
我一生中没有追求积累财富和装饰我的身体，但我有用智慧，耐心的宝石来装饰我的灵魂，还有自由的热爱。
1426. I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence. 中文 / Chinese：
我有信心真的有再生这事情，生命从死亡活过来，和灵魂的存在。
1427. Virtue is the beauty of the soul. 中文 / Chinese：
美德是灵魂的美。
970. The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. 中文 / Chinese：
在这世界荣誉地生活最短和肯定的方法，是在现实里做自己；我们观察，就会找到，所有人的美德增加和强壮是由练习得来。
971. No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. 中文 / Chinese：
没有人在生理训练应做一个外行。年老前看不见身体可以多的优美和强壮实在是羞愧。
972. If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. 中文 / Chinese：
假如你得不到你要的，你受苦；假如你得到你不要的，你受苦；即使假如你得到你要的，你还是受苦因为你不能永远拥有它。你的思想是你的困境。它要不变。无痛，无生与死的责任。但改变是定律，怎样假装也无法改变现实。
973. There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance. 中文 / Chinese：
有两种心灵的病，罪恶和无知。
974. The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. 中文 / Chinese：
快乐的秘密，不会在寻找更多里找到，但会在养成享受更少的能力。
963. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. 中文 / Chinese：
真正的智慧是知道你什麽也不知道。
964. Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. 中文 / Chinese：
记住什麽不适当做也不适当说。
965. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. 中文 / Chinese：
别人做什麽激怒你，不要对人做同样的事。
966. Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? 中文 / Chinese：
累积了大量金钱，名誉，声望，而对智慧，真理，心灵伟大的改善只在乎一点，你不感到羞愧？
967. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. 中文 / Chinese：
记住人事一点也不稳定；所以避免在兴旺时过分的兴奋。
968. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. 中文 / Chinese：
改变的秘诀是所有精力，不在和旧的对抗，但在建造新的。
969. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. 中文 / Chinese：
教育是燃烧的火焰，不是装满的器皿。
920. Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers. 中文 / Chinese：
聪明人从所有人和事里学习，普通人从经验学习，愚蠢人已经有所有答案。
921. In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.” 中文 / Chinese：
幼时谦虚，少时节制，中年公平，老年稳健。
922. The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. 中文 / Chinese：
喜剧和悲剧躺在相连的近，像光与影般近。
923. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. 中文 / Chinese：
只有知识最好，只有无知最邪恶。
924. Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.” 中文 / Chinese：
无用的人只爱饮与食；有用的人为生存而吃与喝。
925. Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. 中文 / Chinese：
人生包含两个悲剧。一是不去争取你心中慾望，二是争取你心中慾望。
926. Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.” 中文 / Chinese：
记住，没有人的状况是永远。这样你不会因幸运而狂喜，亦不会因不幸而藐视。
779. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. 中文 / Chinese：
他不对自己现有的满足，亦不会对他想有的满足。
780. Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. 中文 / Chinese：
诽谤者不可以伤害到我因为他们不可以打到我。
781. One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. 中文 / Chinese：
我只知一样东西，就是我一点也不知。
782. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. 中文 / Chinese：
当我们领悟到对生命，自己，和周围的世界认识那麽少的时候，真正的智慧便来临。
783. I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. 中文 / Chinese：
我害怕用眼去观察事物和用其他感官去理解事物；我会连心灵也一起盲掉。
784. How many are the things I can do without! 中文 / Chinese：
多少东西我没有...也可以！
785. The hottest love has the coldest end. 中文 / Chinese：
最激烈的爱情有最冷酷的终结。
786. 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. 中文 / Chinese：
儘管去结婚吧。如果你取个好老婆你会开心，假若取到个差的你会成为哲学家。
