Life Lessons from Socrates
Dumb Little Man [via] offers up a smattering of obvious-but-always-worth-remembering life lessons from history's favorite philosophical forefather, Socrates. Among my favorites (which are also those I post here to remember personally):
- "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
- "Think not those faithful who praise all they words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
- "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
- "To do is to be."
- "Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Bill & Ted's "Be Excellent to Each Other" doesn't seem to have made the official cannon; but is a good one to flag nonetheless.
