Socrates Quotes
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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
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There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
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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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The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
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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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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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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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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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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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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
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Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
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And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.