I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
SOCRATESRemember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
More Socrates Quotes
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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