The unexamined life is not worth living.
He is the richest who is content with the least.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
Every action has its pleasures and its price.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.
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