The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATESSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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 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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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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