He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
More Socrates Quotes
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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 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.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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To be is to do.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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.
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