Socrates Quotes About Money

We have collected for you the TOP of Socrates's best quotes about Money! Here are collected all the quotes about Money starting from the birthday of the Philosopher – 471 BC! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 5 sayings of Socrates about Money. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

    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.

    "Apology" by Plato (translated by Benjamin Jowett), 2008.
  • An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

  • How many things I can do without!

    Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers
  • 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.

Page 1 of 1
Did you find Socrates's interesting saying about Money? We will be glad if you share the quote with your friends on social networks! This page contains Philosopher quotes from Philosopher Socrates about Money collected since 471 BC! Come back to us again – we are constantly replenishing our collection of quotes so that you can always find inspiration by reading a quote from one or another author!

Socrates

  • Born: 471 BC
  • Died: 399 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher