Socrates

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.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.