Socrates

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Live, let live, and help live

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Power doesn’t corrupt people; people corrupt power.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.