Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.

Consequences are unpitying.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure –tangible material prosperity in this world -is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose – some for cash and some for political influence. We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be… those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes… those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober — minded men.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.