Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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