Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.Collection: Time
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.Collection: Good
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.Collection: God
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.Collection: Knowledge
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.Collection: Death
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Marriage
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Collection: Great
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.Collection: Good
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.Collection: Wisdom
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Collection: Wisdom
Be as you wish to seem.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom begins in wonder.Collection: Wisdom
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.Collection: Beauty
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.Collection: Nature
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.Collection: Death
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.Collection: Men
The unexamined life is not worth living.Collection: Life
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.Collection: Art
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.Collection: Good
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Collection: Poetry
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.Collection: Fear
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.Collection: Courage
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.Collection: Life
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.Collection: Marriage
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.Collection: Beauty
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.Collection: God
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Collection: Good
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.Collection: Fall
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.Collection: Want
Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Ignorance
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.Collection: Motivational
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.Collection: Life
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.Collection: Shining
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorantCollection: Running
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.Collection: Excellence
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.Collection: Air
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.Collection: Inspirational
To find yourself, think for yourself.Collection: Inspirational
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.Collection: Life
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.Collection: Real
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.Collection: Men
It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit oneCollection: Suffering
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.Collection: Inspirational
The more I learn, the less I realize I know.Collection: Realizing
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.Collection: Relationship
Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.Collection: Lying
It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.Collection: Courage