He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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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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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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