Popular Quotes Through Time

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

An honest man is always a child.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.