Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

An honest man is always a child.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.