Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Quote by Socrates
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Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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Socrates Quotes
- Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
- He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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.
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
- 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.
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- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
- We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
- I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
- Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
- It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.
- The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.