Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

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

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

He is richest who is content with the least.

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

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Children are all foreigners.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.