Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.