

“To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.”
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
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“Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.”
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“And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body.”
― Essential Thinkers - Socrates
― Essential Thinkers - Socrates
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