"And a thing is not seen because it is visible, but; conversely, visible because it is seen; nor is a thing led because; it is in the state of being led, or carried because it is in the; state of being carried, but the converse of this. And now I think, Euthyphro, that my meaning will be intelligible; and my; meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous; action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither; does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a; state of suffering because it suffers. Do you not agree?"
"From the deepest desires often comes the deadliest hate."
"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."
"The hottest love has the coldest end."
"Be as you wish to seem."
"Human nature will not easily find a better helper than Eros"
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."
"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
"I neither know nor think that I know"
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
"May the inward and outward man be as one."
"Is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them."
"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
"Through your rags I see your vanity."
"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion."
"And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls."
