There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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
-
-
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.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
SOCRATES -
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATES -
The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATES -
To be is to do.
SOCRATES -
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATES -
My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES