Socrates

The hottest love has the coldest end.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts – a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.