Some quotes by our esteemed friends - Socrates and Plato. "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows. " Socrates, Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians. "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." Plato, The Republic "They certainly give very strange names to diseases." Plato Long live Socrates and Plato. More Socrates quotes. More Plato quotes. All quotes courtesy: QuotationsPage