Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESEducation is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
SOCRATESThe 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.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESNo 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.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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