The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
More Socrates Quotes
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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