To be is to do.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The 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.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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