Socrates was the greatest of the educationalists, but unlike the others he taught gratuitously, though he was a poor man.

Now, I affirm Socrates to have been a true Christian.

The greatest name in the great world of Greece is Socrates; and Socrates was a poor man.

What triflers, on any other ground, were Socrates and Plato.

Augustine said, fourteen hundred years ago, that Socrates was the philosopher of the Catholic Faith.

If suicide meant no more than dying by one's own hand, Socrates was a clear case of suicide.

Thus, Socrates, the contrary of what you just now said is likely to be the case; for it becomes the wise to be grieved at dying, but the foolish to rejoice.

I might censure Socrates unjustly, or at least without convincing my readers, if I attempted that task; but my failure would not throw a feather's weight into the argument that Socrates was a Divine Unique and universal Model.

Socrates indeed is in almost all of them the principal speaker: but when he falls into the company of some arrogant sophist; when the modest wisdom, and clear science of the one, are contrasted with the confident ignorance and blind opinionativeness of the other; dispute and controversy must of course arise: where the false pretender cannot fail of being either puzzled or confuted.

"'Contentment is natural wealth' says Socrates to which I shall add 'luxury is artificial poverty.'

In regard to the first charge, it could not be technically proved that he had assailed the gods, for he was exact in his legal worship; but really and virtually there was some foundation for the accusation, since Socrates was a religious innovator if ever there was one.

[S.] ] Socrates was a freethinker; for he disbelieved the gods of his country, and the common creeds about them, and declared his dislike when he heard men attribute "repentance, anger, and other passions to the gods, and talk of wars and battles in heaven, and of the gods getting women with child," and such like fabulous and blasphemous stones.

Socrates was a stone-cutter, you know.

Socrates, the Athenian sage, is an illustrious instance of the punishment that was meted out to the bold innovator who attempted to insult the gods and to poison the minds of youth with the heresies of a philosophic religion.

Socrates and Buddha are brothers.

Socrates was a long-headed, as well as a long-footed fellow, and he brought back from this expedition a report that was of material importance to the future husbandry of the colonists.

Socrates, and Marcus Aurelius, are Instances of Men, who, by the Strength of Philosophy, having entirely composed their Minds, and subdued their Passions, are celebrated for good Husbands, notwithstanding the first was yoked with Xantippe, and the other with Faustina.

Socrates and Dido had been the slaves of Bridget, when he left home; a part of the estate she had received from her grandmother.