When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion…

Quote by Socrates

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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...

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you...

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you...

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

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.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that...

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for...

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for...

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...

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you...

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you...

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.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a...

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant,...

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant,...