Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Quote by Socrates
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Socrates Quotes
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- 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.
- Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
- 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.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Best Quotes
- To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- A man who goes to bed with an itching anus must surely wake up with a smelling fingers.
- Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
- In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
- You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.