Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

In order to become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have made a hypothesis.

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of invention.

An unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth - that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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

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

If you want to be a good rider, you must first be a good horseman.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and I am not even sure of that.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul follows the body, and by means of the body, it is purified and made free.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I think I know something, I find that I don't.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.