We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
SOCRATESThe true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
More Socrates Quotes
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Employ 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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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.
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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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