To find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
More Socrates Quotes
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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