Socrates

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

How many are the things I can do without!

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Society is a hospital of incurables.