My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
SOCRATESRemember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
SOCRATESA 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.
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.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESIt is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESYour 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.
SOCRATESThe great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATESThere is no solution; seek it lovingly.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATESAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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