Socrates
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.Collection: Differences
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.Collection: Apology
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.Collection: Death
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.Collection: Wise
What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.Collection: Character
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Collection: Life
Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.Collection: Travel
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 deathCollection: Life
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.Collection: Cities
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.Collection: Ignorance
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.Collection: Differences
To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for itCollection: Phrases
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.Collection: Life
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.Collection: Armor
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .Collection: Inspire
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.Collection: What Matters
The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.Collection: Stupidity
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.Collection: Ignorant
No one does wrong voluntarily.Collection: Doe
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.Collection: Men
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.Collection: Life
She soars on her own wings.Collection: Inspirational
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.Collection: Needs
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.Collection: Hate
I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.Collection: Fear
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.Collection: Judging
All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealthCollection: War
All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.Collection: Knows
Contentment is natural wealth.Collection: Happiness
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.Collection: Lines
Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real KnowledgeCollection: Real
There is no illness of the body except for the mindCollection: Inspiration
The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.Collection: Soul
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.Collection: Inspirational
Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.Collection: Knowing
Pride divides the men, humility joins them.Collection: Humility
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.Collection: Good Life
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.Collection: Knowing
Death offers mankind a full view of truth.Collection: Views
To harm another is to harm oneselfCollection: Harm
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.Collection: Enquiry
Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.Collection: Wisdom
If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.Collection: Littles
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.Collection: Teacher
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.Collection: Hands
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.Collection: Evil
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.Collection: Hate
Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.Collection: Poison
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.Collection: Horse