Socrates Quotes

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

Humility is attentive patience.

What you do not wish others to do to you, do not to other men.

We do not kick a man in the stomach after we’ve licked him.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and sense of responsibility with or without religion.

Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.

If you stick to what the Bible teaches, then you have everything you need: honesty, openness, friendliness, respect, tolerance, and much more, which is often lost nowadays.