By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
SOCRATESThe hottest love has the coldest end.
More Socrates Quotes
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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