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.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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.
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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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I 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.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Are 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?
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He 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.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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