Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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To be is to do.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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