Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

To delay justice, is injustice.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.