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.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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To be is to do.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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