Quote #34
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
More from Socrates
- Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Call no man unhappy until he is married.
- Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, 'Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone …