Socrates

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

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

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.