Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
More Socrates Quotes
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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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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.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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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