Socrates

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Debt is the worst poverty.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay debts, you have no idea, of the pain it gives one.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

The impulse dances inside the debt.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.