SOCRATES

"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."

"God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers."

"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."

"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"Let him who would move the world first move himself."

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

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

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."