"He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed."
Socrates Quotes
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All I know is that I know nothing.
"My advice to you is getting married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
"We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him."
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
"Thou should eat to live; not live to eat."
"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves"
"I desire only to know the truth and to live as well as I can... And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same... I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
"Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, me to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better? Only God knows."
"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue."
"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."