Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

An honest man is always a child.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher… and that is a good thing for any man.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

Today is a king in disguise.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Riches are for spending.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not hide from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.