Socrates Quotes
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.
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No one does wrong voluntarily.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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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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The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
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There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
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The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
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Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.