Socrates

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

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

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

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

An honest man is always a child.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Blame is safer than praise.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.