Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATESLiving well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESI 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.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESIf all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
SOCRATESBe as you wish to seem.
SOCRATESIt 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.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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