All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.