Socrates

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

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.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another’s air with another’s breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a tenant at will of the great Lord of heaven and earth.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

The listlessness of it all, the profit off depression, the extinction of an entire species, the chlorinated connections- poisoned just to appear clean.

He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.