In the words of Socrates:
Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.
Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.
Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.
Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.
I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
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