Socrates

To be is to do.

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to men.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

One who is injured ought to write his injury in the dust, but his kindness on the marble.

The mind is everything; what you think you become.

In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her husband is dead to her children.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

The product of the head, the heart and the hand is what we call a perfect life.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer if you don't want to be here.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius; pay it and don't forget.

Now it is time that we were going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the acquisition of wealth and for reputation and honor, when you neither care nor take thought for wisdom and truth and the perfection of your soul?

I examined myself and others.

The cause of my sorrow is that I crave wisdom.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do.

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

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.