I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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If 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.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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