Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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