One 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.
SOCRATESNo man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
More Socrates Quotes
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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.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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