Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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

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

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Be as you wish to seem.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we are, we shall not be troubled that other people know not what we are.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for I am well aware of my ignorance.

I am a citizen of the world.

The children of the rich are not more intelligent than the children of the poor.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

If you want to be a good horseman, you must ride a bad horse.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind came by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.

The fewer our wants, the more like the gods we are.