Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
More Socrates Quotes
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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 know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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.
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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 want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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