The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Are 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?
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He 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.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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