Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
More Socrates Quotes
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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 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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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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.
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No 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.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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