Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. Socrates View this quote
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. Socrates
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If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason. Socrates
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all. Socrates
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. Socrates
If you would seek health, look first to the spine. Socrates
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. Socrates
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. Socrates
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine. Socrates
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. Socrates
Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers. Socrates
Classical Greek Athenian philosopher
470 - 399BC