Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
More Socrates Quotes
-
-
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
SOCRATES -
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATES -
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATES -
I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
SOCRATES -
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SOCRATES -
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
SOCRATES -
Wisdom begins in wonder.
SOCRATES -
There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
SOCRATES -
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATES -
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATES