Socrates

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.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

There is only one good – knowledge; and only one evil – ignorance.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.