Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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To be is to do.
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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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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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