The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
SOCRATESThe really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
SOCRATESI 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.
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
SOCRATESEnvy is the ulcer of the soul.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
SOCRATESThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESAre you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
SOCRATESBe of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
SOCRATESBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESThose who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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