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.
SOCRATESThe 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.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESEducation is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
SOCRATESAre you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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.
SOCRATESIs it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATESOnce made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESI 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.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATES