Socrates

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

Stupidity is something you can only partly save people from.

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.