Quote #90
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
More from Socrates
- Virtue does not come from wealth, but health, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
- What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
- Upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more me…
- What you cannot enforce, do not command.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Wisdom begins in wonder.