I 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.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
More Socrates Quotes
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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