Socrates

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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

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

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I am a sky gazer. The sky, it pulls at me. Its amazing eternal expanse of breathtaking beauty calls me back to my senses, stretches my awareness, soothes my eyes, opens my heart, stills me. I feel a soft soul longing to be up there, in the vastness, amongst the clouds that are alive and billow and skud and glow; metamorphosing from perfection into perfection. A constantly changing canvas brushed by magic.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.