Socrates Quotes
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.
Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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.
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.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.
Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.
