Socrates

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

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 fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

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

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided

You are a constant. Forever in my mind; forever in my heart. It seems that most matter how much I try I can’t get rid of you. You are a thorn, stuck in deep; painful to remove, and even when I do, still I’ll bleed and feel the soreness. It will take time, but it will heal. No matter the pain, I will still dare to pick roses.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.