Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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

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.

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

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

An honest man is always a child.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.