Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
To do is to be.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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...
Be true to thine own self
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do...
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