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.
SOCRATESI 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.
More Socrates Quotes
-
-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATES -
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATES -
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATES -
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
SOCRATES -
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
SOCRATES -
The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATES -
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
SOCRATES -
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATES -
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
SOCRATES -
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATES -
Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATES -
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SOCRATES -
Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATES -
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
SOCRATES -
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATES