2026-09-17T08:28:52Z https://nostr.now Socrates Quotes https://nostr.now/npub1s0cra5735s8ccw7pfvqtp4see7t7lkfr0gwrfhkhsfakuxkf5ahs83023h https://image.nostr.build/fecea436d4d58ff37e841fe8f9abd5c5070a89dd4ff7feb68213004f88e011ed.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fecea436d4d58ff37e841fe8f9abd5c5070a89dd4ff7feb68213004f88e011ed.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqeg3dpmm0ks2xza45nskw3lap7pv3w4qvxsgwc90r2drcamz6jrczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7zcsd8p "And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body." 2026-10-27T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfch9c0hfs8hxvg26amfmz36hkz5s28jevkxa5suv90htd0vuteyczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7u52jfv "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others." 2026-10-27T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgm8y4j3dntxz28x2clmzgrm6va46m559ks6re4xfn6uj5z3cm09gzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7cfr4n8 "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." 2026-10-26T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsge8wxm2z60xmdhpenw22r0nr7tjn4s5xuk379cjuuazgha52k68qzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7vsvewz "To find yourself, think for yourself." 2026-10-26T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvx957z7fdc0h5ljgptlzqxx04ujt5e5p6ta592c37avg0ahksprqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7q9v9e4 "Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual." 2026-10-25T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstqcs2g6x56ckujcy4cf00tnzem33adw5n2h7racgc8jy9y5h2g7gzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7aypp30 "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." 2026-10-25T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstzd5c68y46xj9eyeyxg6ccr6lzh0pxlt7ve2gnty0plm4xd04utqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7dd4wp5 "Let him who would move the world first move himself." 2026-10-24T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszs5ekz8chn9j0dfddztex97ud6pa4aqdssey5yua0xa8nq5vvg7szyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7c0fc89 "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." 2026-10-24T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrdkawkzm3dagl29y79xqsurxaykygpgnvmdgulhe5tsdz0z929tgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk73kxzlz "Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?" 2026-10-23T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvraccjvfw3ymv58kxwx7ytn37608qh774je8rp4tf36vv7me8ymqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk78rfhqu "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." 2026-10-23T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsylkzpq5t5xj4m4p54j3pmcp0m3grxzx4ylhnhue6h4q3w2z0p2kczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7jncp90 "And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls." 2026-10-22T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs00d9d5qp2jmxtam22r4r8ukvx4pjx7pxgga9a0qzfqu8kusvxmgszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk76uc7a8 "I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do you– each one of you, individually and in private– what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and as rational as possible." 2026-10-22T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf0p6yae2j402h7qy86c2463gnrlvjzps6yypdh49qh9mrh9f7mhqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk76eecue "Be as you wish to seem." 2026-10-21T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvmt3gfvqdhz0u6z6fde3n9w6u0vfwpgdeq6ywgmv7mc0a68wudaczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7j6cdjd "For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles." 2026-10-21T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf22nayktzhydfznr7m07x8x9e5xa0lmkf79t64yz0qlgm93af28czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7zutc5j "Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat." 2026-10-20T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdvgnfw4e05fsgvd840v78k8hu44uhewavmtfy3zun2hksk9wzscszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7752lty "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, me to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better? Only God knows." 2026-10-20T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8mk4rg0sne67upqnk4hxwghrkh85v63an2t4czphpfppwksz000czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7e4cn4d "Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." 2026-10-19T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqq89va35zxyxzzkawg9lxu7p9dcqe98c7f77n8xru5x3adv4h22qzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk76v9yjv "One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him." 2026-10-19T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw5p2usqqszcz9uunjucw42tm2svtyhge40993v874speekr49ujszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7pzx4u2 "The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift." 2026-10-18T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8ul7r7vkxs2mtycp9xqmraz4qypgd2xrsx6n4qv7ynqx0vlwvhtczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7r9wx9z "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." 2026-10-18T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsthwny25t2znpx0ws98en6tg38hjry7uvqf4x3nf0x43j2277k7cszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk74d8yp3 "God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us." 2026-10-17T19:21:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz49rvmhtgu0saevxr8pfgtujwpvg8ec99ys9alyrh7a9y4enuqnszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7y6sf0k "Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?" 2026-10-17T07:21:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8vdrews5wwns25cycx06vedcleekvlp5j59ayt75rn3lzcdtpfgczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7xpqwnz "He who is not contended with what he has would not be contended with what he would like to have." 2026-10-16T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvjld9e0d0qfgpgv3sf3880rl7quw68hz0fzrlxe069mf47zpwnfszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7at0lfd "Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively." 2026-10-16T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvv8uuzuhyzz43d8gqc5r3f8u37r5y63dp9afys55lntvav0a7ttqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7rfsv0m "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy." 2026-10-15T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2u09ec7x4tm4gj624k3a7w2myrcrprcx35e2x90g0ree6rst2q9szyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7xa7swa "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." 2026-10-15T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz9j3ucmx39wue8h4ymwr44ewkzm0hpwvmdyc6s8ze57vkp7ywzhqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk732xp3y "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." 2026-10-14T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszt267m3nlgqvqdtqzjxmrq2pygu4ddv87ylt989q0fjeqp834z4szyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7v0tlkc "He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed." 2026-10-14T07:21:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs03pdtzuuxepmyzdhgy6zn57gqlfn55vnklc04u85mp9vldddvvwqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7sy0tx2 "Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house." 2026-10-13T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvtcwey9hhpchsg8g2k9cwrpln7du6r7mqqkfw5g6zsdpgtn5uj0czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk77wqrwn "Human nature will not easily find a better helper than Eros." 2026-10-13T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxc09r6u2wl8ews8g4v2xm6hemdxa95crm6e4nv3dgam3tqmznnpszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7srzcje "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy." 2026-10-12T19:21:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq4dnxrvtypzm6gtangemh9ws6p2m5jrx94e2scmmqk6ujclng93gzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7rfqch4 "Thou should eat to live; not live to eat." 2026-10-12T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx9q3tjf8zp5lrutew0zhyunl77aqsq5aq24y7x36k3x79xz5j97szyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7ptkcxr "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul" 2026-10-11T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvr9ghhudpcx9ck4mz0qugly5mnapjp7a3jcwqg7y8834t26rs5pqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7a0llhs "Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one." 2026-10-11T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspc8y4cdkdpq4y6md34jak0zucvt8kyh8rdu7rkv49v3j29k393kgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7rlmt8h "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." 2026-10-10T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdn4t55u0m76qecy4djsy5lg340p8ye7msac8m9r4ggf9etzfc4wczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk780gdep "Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god." 2026-10-10T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0j42fuxvee4xk85vmekml307rdpzh05l7mkq2nrk229p3f8ppg0szyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk79hqzpy "We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him." 2026-10-09T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp0m4aefmewarm7qcj2q7d8wlkglvr66k7zg04u2y293y709ule4czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk78mk3y6 "Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat." 2026-10-09T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswhhfmfh0ya3mltx5saql5phwdts9d9mfv3crtgm2gyxv2h0gwy5czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7wj72rw "How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?" 2026-10-08T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyyrz6j92hk34m6x35xeneavjxv7r69nelu2tyq3lwytc7gh9vyzszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk73s556u "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." 2026-10-08T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspsd76vwzwgj89y8lwhmkhxgk2upa5y4z90ppg5ks84q0y2eg23qszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7sxhnjr "He who is not contended with what he has would not be contended with what he would like to have." 2026-10-07T19:21:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqu2lkaznqs6rndp6ud6ze3wgtxe4panw9sr4rrd4rw6aqwzga08gzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7s0vpua "Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior." 2026-10-07T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstt84rrq7jgtv7e974qlnfaequk94dfja7r0zst2whwlcxzssspsgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7ka8x3j "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." 2026-10-06T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxyl8g8yvf3vaklcu64x0eszzezqrdvlwvttja20sdjg6cx874p0gzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7yen256 "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." 2026-10-06T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9pj6uwu7rpv4ghyyy7p95pkeatrsx6cr0hche8hau7y6keued06qzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7uqfny2 "Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." 2026-10-05T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvnj2lgfcgxn6svfcaplkszcsda3cpunfz9we6y6wezlec59xv2xszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7q3jalk "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." 2026-10-05T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswlpvqt0nc0yq8ke7lmehkrm8g4gvl7w82ap0r5sjcjhj6407va8qzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7j0vzn9 "The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." 2026-10-04T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2jct377naxm4yfh0wtphvnumrwrfqg67fl9h97re3mgt0k05j5tszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7jy0pat "The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift." 2026-10-04T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszsxukuuf4m3t7979km20rq000lus4qrlsr32kfxx35sgedhk5ncgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk75zevza "Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively." 2026-10-03T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx3vzd6cyuu0j8mqan678xpfj08zgqx347sjwxe44c7284efrmqhqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk76qf8t9 "Is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them." 2026-10-03T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstffxzsehfa2vz6kupk98xlz3gske54fsmlvemfj00gsqh706qutczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7an6mze "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." 2026-10-02T19:21:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstr2xxnfkwutcf9e74glq3vh8tvl0rux7vx05sknpg5kpxgeslj0szyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7uw803q "Envy is the ulcer of the soul." 2026-10-02T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsts0q30zeh9s6h2xc4l2fqmh05z2yqg0ezkemwf8xcjl4dyax0ftczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7fg9ttk "If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart." 2026-10-01T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw0e6l53u5uh04psfwtlunrys3qkh0ukc8cx40a6tss0nchylx94qzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk79ef853 "May the inward and outward man be as one." 2026-10-01T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswxx2dqmh82hukpmugzwjzkx6rfvdgawlaxq2eaxsjxvdn40prt8szyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7zjm0qq "If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman." 2026-09-30T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy60ntm6gzsh8ldgwwpaa4c6zwuls38d5rlu4fw0guq28ycf2lnuszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7ts5m4y "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for." 2026-09-30T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstj0qqk95jc0fp2g7kwn6gv4jj7agps067m7m9knzsvhxktx5ekcgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7fxxc5f "Is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them." 2026-09-29T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf3jaqdktjwkny8cehwc2rxxlypzsn8ezd0rhah2atedn9qqk3jxqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7skcvzc "If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman." 2026-09-29T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8cpce9pwpwrlh9czspuntqs3tt95yxjsdf2hgmv357khfx87j8mqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7fcfaje "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for." 2026-09-28T19:21:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs834d2zvk73z5xgzfjnfqm4mh4dx43k4krwkg4md7u3yuglernh7czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk728e9nx "Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue." 2026-09-28T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs86eew7ht6ruk23x580xeyuk3y66k0q3xcj99e03mh0eqyr7us3vqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7cqq0f6 "Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior." 2026-09-27T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspf09hkdc2kjuhdtu5pw2cl4222cvwnhe43u8tfvhqykge565hz7czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7c45jxu "null" 2026-09-27T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspf8ae3kw2crwynn2a0vp8mwlsrjaagd3f5wf94642q0gzpnk2eaqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7nywdgy "Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat." 2026-09-26T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw2n2rqf37vy2l9nmusfkkr9pstn9h2ag6m94zlssade35hekfemgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk75y4mpr "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." 2026-09-26T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfuvn93pr6xcndtsqv95evdxppu4c0w3ca9qkcrw6yuajm6tlgzpqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7qrlqzz "The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be." 2026-09-25T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvfl4d38d8rsuyrxt043f07kk2dtm350um3xq62xpl2z7vg6gkrlqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7hz5549 "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." 2026-09-25T07:21:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsggpt3h8s9x2leyys6m0uam78lt4jcmz6lcep675wsw4swk9elywgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7syu36z "Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death." 2026-09-24T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstxlkvgz0x0xv6y5edmuacdg3jtrh7nqqualpdrjatqs6dmvhp0zgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk79eswc3 "Envy is the ulcer of the soul." 2026-09-24T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxdzkad0kk8aw06j4qcyte74uzvmw57fd4us64nxm00crurv5zfqgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7zlpx53 "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for." 2026-09-23T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspjdv7s60gxpxs50dmvxvplu2n5mqfkdqg6kes3hht92ux9enlsegzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7rfr8yx "He who is not contended with what he has would not be contended with what he would like to have." 2026-09-23T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9ludc5f7uerxkepn49hpzm24nz5xjzv9qndxjlyatc9y4eu8tzlczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7nq8ya3 "Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively." 2026-09-22T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs93c474j3w8g0d490vmv5d3nqc7e0q2t68lx6l9a9jfgav92d99fczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7h5eu8h "One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him." 2026-09-22T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv3x6gnpx70xra62glx5fqzfk3ghjgyyujs70mq9pelu26v403u7gzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7etsm9c "I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do you– each one of you, individually and in private– what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and as rational as possible." 2026-09-21T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgnepqguwm3c7fwuju9j26y47de4r8a03rx539ygp79t7qtexzndqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7y55fxp "I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good." 2026-09-21T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2yyj5z79sn4gnc03fuvpgujz9kewkdla2w8ahnz82x3t5smpwxrszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk767tluk "Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat." 2026-09-20T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszrs6q2xz6np7jjtva64qferf5luzp32gfp4ufyjhwgfac4s52vzczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7gsc3fy "Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle." 2026-09-20T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqc8skmh3g0x3c3ng68za70m892g3zt3pu6d2q59fdyvsz8wzf3gqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk76259vl "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." 2026-09-19T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyjf67yc45cnas6vdus4jnh42ufs9yecvxqykgagkw79pgsvgxfxczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7yj98y8 "I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding." 2026-09-19T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstg6dj8vg8ugz74jzy0auugyn5fylkchej7a8e54586xakpzltsrqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7z5njgz "I desire only to know the truth and to live as well as I can... And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same... I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict." 2026-09-18T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg5r09p5nxf7a825ld2dt09l8ws0wja09amdmhzsvkth076hhs5xszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7kjwpw7 "Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." 2026-09-18T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgw30kq7n3xtngjajp3tgkfeqwgm3uxr5rpq5p9rv8rzxup4verzgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7q4gp3y "The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles." 2026-09-17T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvtdgnee4umjsn3p6qylkexycfztk0pj2gyfcymzlcvz7lyk5xdrgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7d82l65 "For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles." 2026-09-17T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv5c5ah7vynpgp99p4cexgmtlt3tfyatdmdu9caz692ng6klhd7dczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7vmnguk "How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?" 2026-09-16T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxzyflsmqmgcxk4eygqmmeh8x4s5qvp6a92vlakhq6gz23msxtq0gzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7pz5eep "The law presumably says that it is finest to keep as quiet as possible in misfortunes and not be irritated, since the good and bad in such things aren't plain, nor does taking it hard get one anywhere, not are any of the human things worthy of great seriousness.... One must accept the fall of the dice and settle one's affairs accordingly-- in whatever way argument declares would be best. One must not behave like children who have stumbled and who hold on to the hurt place and spend their time in crying out; rather one must always habituate the soul to turn as quickly as possible to curing and setting aright what has fallen and is sick, doing away with lament by medicine." 2026-09-16T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8e4r8erz3980wfz95hl5nca3jaty5vtdvtnhg9jhhmxaq4gxjkjgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7u9nusr "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." 2026-09-15T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswkhtavvxxkue56q4x2pv7gzppjac2dftv2u98rah6k9lyqnh5nngzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7y9jpsj "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." 2026-09-15T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqvj4h4zuvaumxnlfm2e2tcd4lj6rrsaa3zpd90jr33hfl8qtqdmgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk74devam "Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?" 2026-09-14T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdjm77hwl5am74vhq8grcfxnt3sgn0xuhmym94cu0veusgmd7sssszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7htus73 "I neither know nor think that I know." 2026-09-14T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvzyd6nk59cp3x8awemfksrg3m9n6zjj4kf79lygztefk3sf90tfqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7wf4m6s "For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows that he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are: that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know..." 2026-09-13T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx2k8rtjmrx7a24xku8rphu33gatl7a22hxtulvlfscj2y6grupzczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7s9ud8z "And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows" 2026-09-13T07:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8t05yvtnn30ddqducntqr3mkgtz5r558vxxldv56dg9nacj0lgfszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7wd6pz6 "The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves." 2026-09-12T19:21:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxrvdasln86pdz42mvk7msz4azp7hsjhrtprwhcl4fwke66dg7dnszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk75aagpp "If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart." 2026-09-12T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfqqnurqt0gnjfrlq3vslmg70hu4lpkrx63df672es243hhrtac0czyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7794ey9 "And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows." 2026-09-11T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0n2t7prvxgwjqknreh50z9q486frjrcfgdjqtm0fr5krjjdsu4wszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7996ard "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." 2026-09-11T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdqhqg55j8f7yfxgtklwmhcul83ggsgy76l9mch248lfpq45dwafszyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk7sjzcyg "To express one badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul." 2026-09-10T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp3zuxej2szcvvr9xvc8exa97yv0myyj2uj6t7nqup8jryp04zgfgzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk75mvws6 "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." 2026-09-10T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswlal9fyyurstxunvq96y6pvlgdgfgkvtey20cs5uzssr7r2qm3mqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk79lgceh "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults." 2026-09-09T19:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgmpv0j0fuenwezsjwtmeufrr7tn96jetzau3saqvmcwku7hftnkczyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk70gxjgm "For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles." 2026-09-09T07:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswc9f0ahudmpvcuy5f4p6ch38gmvnzqyk9t6thnrlty2vhl3eympqzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk70erxww "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." 2026-09-08T19:21:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs038gas74ksftgx8zfd9nl89nz3yzgy52rwvnwnq2k5gdef0z94ygzyzplq0kn6xjqlrpmc99spvxkr88e0m7eydapcdx767p8kms6exnk77zk6fs "In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep." 2026-09-08T07:21:03Z