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.
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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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