Socrates

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

All things in moderation, including moderation.

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

The warm love has the coldest end.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.