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.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
More Socrates Quotes
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I 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.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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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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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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