Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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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.
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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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