Socrates

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.