You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
SocratesIt is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
SocratesThe hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
SocratesIt is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.
Socrates