Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESThere is no solution; seek it lovingly.
More Socrates Quotes
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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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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