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.
SOCRATESOne 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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