Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

An index is a great leveller.