Socrates

“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”

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

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

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

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

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”

“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

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

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”

“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”

“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.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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