Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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To be is to do.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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 slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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