Socrates Quotes
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The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
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The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
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The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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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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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
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The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
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We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.