To be is to do.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
More Socrates Quotes
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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