Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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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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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.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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A 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.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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