To be is to do.
SOCRATESIf 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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.
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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.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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