Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESWealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESA man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESYour 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.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATESIf 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.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATESTo find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESIs it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESIt is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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