Socrates

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows – it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

I thus free myself from the illness of ego-clinging.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

You are a constant. Forever in my mind; forever in my heart. It seems that most matter how much I try I can’t get rid of you. You are a thorn, stuck in deep; painful to remove, and even when I do, still I’ll bleed and feel the soreness. It will take time, but it will heal. No matter the pain, I will still dare to pick roses.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.