3 December 2020 Socrates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
3 December 2020 Socrates He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
3 December 2020 Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
3 December 2020 Socrates I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
3 December 2020 Socrates By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
3 December 2020 Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
3 December 2020 Socrates Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
3 December 2020 Socrates 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.
3 December 2020 Socrates The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
3 December 2020 Socrates Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
3 December 2020 Socrates Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
3 December 2020 Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
3 December 2020 Socrates As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
3 December 2020 Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
3 December 2020 Socrates He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
3 December 2020 Socrates All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
3 December 2020 Socrates To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
3 December 2020 Socrates The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
