Yannis Stavrou, Sunday Promenade, oil on cnavas
On humans...
Socrates
Quotations
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
An honest man is always a child.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Be as you wish to seem.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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 and that is a good thing for any man.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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