Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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