By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
More Socrates Quotes
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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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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