Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library) Quotes

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)

“understanding a question is half an answer”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)

“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.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library)