Category Socrates

Socrates says: “If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”

Socrates says: “If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your…

Socrates says: “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.”

Socrates says: “I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.”

Socrates says: “I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.”

Socrates says: “I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in…

Socrates says: “I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know”

Socrates says: “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

Socrates says: “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

Socrates says: “From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”