Socrates

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

He is richest who is content with the least.

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

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Today is a king in disguise.