Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

He is richest who is content with the least.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

The surest poison is time.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that’s become my enemy because that’s what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.

They must first judge themselves, that presume to censure others: And such will not be apt to overshoot the Mark. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by Love and Information. And yet we could hurt no Man that we believe loves us. Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men did once see we Love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the [Laurel]. If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever.

Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.