I pray thee, O God that I may be beautiful within

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

She soars on her own wings.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can...

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul

Call no man unhappy until he is married

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

Suddenly there were people who came to realize that there must be some things that must be done about the natural environment,

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...

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

He is the richest who is content with the least

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time: and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely...

Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

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

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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

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

How many are the things I can do without!

The easiest and noblest way is not to be disabling to others but to be improving yourselves.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but...

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

How much there is in the world I do not want

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods

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

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

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

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is...

Those who want fewer things are nearest to the gods

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from...

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it...

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance