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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.