The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Quote by Socrates

Topics: Honor Quotes

The hottest love has the coldest end.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come...

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come...

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we...

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we...

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about...

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about...

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine

My belief is that to have no wants is divine

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no...

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no...

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will...

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will...

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for...

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for...

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be...

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be...

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I...

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I...