SOCRATES QUOTES ON FRIENDSHIP

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”

(Socrates believed in the unity of all human beings and emphasized the importance of friendship between people from different cultures and backgrounds.)

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”

“If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him.”

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining friendship.” FALLING OUT FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”

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

“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, and the other perpetual.”

“An honest man is always a child.”

“No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”