Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
More Socrates Quotes
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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