Quote #92
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Socrates
- What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
- Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
- Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Virtue does not come from wealth, but health, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
- Know thyself.
- Upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more me…
- I drank what?