Socrates of Athens left no writings of his own, yet his voice has shaped Western thought for twenty-four centuries. This book gathers one hundred genuine quotations preserved by those who knew him — chiefly Plato in his dialogues and Xenophon in his recollections — and arranges them in eleven thematic sections, from wisdom and ignorance to the trial that ended his life. Each quotation carries its ancient source and a short commentary that opens, rather than closes, its meaning. Together they offer the reader a portrait of the philosopher whose central charge to humanity remains undiminished: care, above all, for the soul.
