The Wisdom of Socrates

• They who provide much wealth for their children but neglect to imporove them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to be useful.

• Nature hs given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

• If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own nad depart.

• Better do a little well, than a great deal badly.

• The way to gain a good repuitation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

• By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher and that is good for every man.

• Once made equal to man , woman becomes his superior.

• Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth , that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

• The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which in a wise man, wisdom has in keeping.

• There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.