Socrates Quotes about Money

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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.

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.

Socrates

Money, Jewels, Soul

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Socrates

Education, Money, Work

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

Life, Money, Men

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Socrates

Money, Teaching, Men

"Apology" by Plato (translated by Benjamin Jowett), 2008.