Socrates on Strength Quotes

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."

"No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."

"An honest man is always a child."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

"I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live."

"I call him the strongest who is able to control his own passions."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

"Is it not a shame for a man to be in such a condition that he does not know what he can do, because he has never tried?"

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."

"The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact."

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"Justice is the excellence of the soul."

"Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me."

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong."

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

"Courage is a kind of endurance of the soul."

"To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not."