"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny"
Socrates Quotes
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All I know is that I know nothing.
"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
"And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all."
"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."
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves"
"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion."
"Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry?"
"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion."
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
"Through your rags I see your vanity."
"Be as you wish to seem."
"Through your rags I see your vanity."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."