Socrates Quotes
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The universe really is motion & nothing else.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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To harm another is to harm oneself.
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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
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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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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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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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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
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When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
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The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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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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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
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No one does wrong voluntarily.
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Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.