To find yourself, think for yourself.
If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time: and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If dea...
One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who...""Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "Ab...
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of...
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Wisdom is knowing you know nothing
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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 suffere...
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