Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
SocratesThe uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
SocratesBad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
SocratesBeloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
SocratesA painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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