Bores Quote by Epictetus

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me…

— Jean de La Fontaine

“After all, it is sometimes rather enjoyable to feel insulted, is it not? For the person knows that no one has insulted him, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.”

— Socrates

“Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.”

— Francis Mont

“Socrates, the dialectical hero of the Platonic drama, reminds us of the kindred nature of the Euripidean hero who must defend his actions with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be…

— Benson Bruno

“That Socrates should ever have been so treated by the Athenians!" Slave! why say "Socrates"? Speak of the thing as it is: That ever…

— Epictetus

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the…

— Michel de Montaigne

A person who persistently insults others, can be forced to feel foolish if, he is continuously ignored.

— Senora Roy

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can become unpopular…

— Søren Kierkegaard

It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the…

— Rebecca Goldstein