Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESNo 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.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESOne should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
SOCRATESHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESIs it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESIf 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.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
SOCRATESTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
SOCRATESHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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