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.
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
More Socrates Quotes
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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To be is to do.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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