Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
More Socrates Quotes
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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