Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
More Socrates Quotes
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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 greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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