He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SOCRATESThere is no solution; seek it lovingly.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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 really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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