For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer...

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

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

Know thyself.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him “Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who…””Hold up” Socrates interrupts...

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems,...

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

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

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience...

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

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may...

It is necessary that one who really and truly fights for the right, if he is to survive even for a short time, shall act as a private man, not as a public man

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Be true to thine own self

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Be as you wish to seem.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine

That which was not before can not be afterwards, without becoming and having become.

The seriousness of throwing over hell whilst still clinging to the Atonement is obvious. If there is no punishment for sin there can be no self-forgiveness for it. If Christ paid our score, and if...

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Philosophy begins with wonder

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

To find yourself, think for yourself.

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions,...

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of...

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

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

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once...

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.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty