Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. Socrates View this quote
Happiness is unrepented pleasure. Socrates
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Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding? Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. Socrates
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world. Socrates
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. Socrates
How many things can I do without? Socrates
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill. Socrates
I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence. Socrates
Classical Greek Athenian philosopher
470 - 399BC