It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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