Let him who would move the world first move himself.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
SOCRATESThe 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.
SOCRATESContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESEvery action has its pleasures and its price.
SOCRATESMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESI do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
SOCRATESAn unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESWe cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESUnderstanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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