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.
SOCRATESI don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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 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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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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