In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESLet him who would move the world first move himself.
More Socrates Quotes
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Your 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.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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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 hottest love has the coldest end.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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