Socrates

The hottest love has the coldest end.

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.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay.

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.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.