Socrates

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 end of life is to be like God, and the soul is immortal.

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

Man must be doing something, or he will go mad.

I would rather have a mind free from care than a kingdom.

It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it.

I am a midwife of ideas.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I think I know something, I find that I do not know it.

The highest of all arts is the art of living.

The soul is immortal and imperishable, and after death it is born again in a new body.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.

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

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

The highest form of knowledge is to wonder.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without being wise; for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.

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.

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 obliged to have recourse to any artifice whatsoever.