Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be…

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

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

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right…

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny…

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings…

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but…

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

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued…

The unexamined life is not worth living…

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing…

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

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will…

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing…

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about…