Socrates

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.