Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. Socrates View this quote
And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls. Socrates
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Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? Socrates
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? Socrates
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you… Socrates
Athletics have become professionalized. Socrates
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. Socrates
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth – that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates
Classical Greek Athenian philosopher
470 - 399BC
