Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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