Socrates Crito Quotes & Sayings

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays. — George Takei

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt. — Bobby Farrelly

So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end — William Shakespeare

For the Christian church ... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting. — Cornelius Plantinga

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that. — Andre Rieu

If she ran, at least her body still had motion, even if her brain was mired under responsibility. — Lish McBride

perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a best friend. You — Fredrik Backman

Success is not an adjective for a life. A person can only be successful at part of something not in all something. — Todd Stocker

SOCRATES: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? CRITO: Very true. SOCRATES: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. — Plato

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution. — Jane Ripley

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts. — Sharon Gless

Do we say that one must never willingly do wrong, or does it depend upon the circumstances? Is it true, as we have often agreed before, that there is no sense in which wrongdoing is good or honourable? Or have we jettisoned all our former convictions in these last few days? Can you and I at our age, Crito, have spent all these years in serious discussions without realizing that we were no better than a pair of children? Surely the truth is just what we have always said. Whatever the popular view is, and whether the alternative in pleasanter than the present one or even harder to bear, the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonourable for the person who does it. — Socrates