Socrates

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

[Meletus] cannot harm me, for I do not think it is permitted for the better man to be harmed by the worse.

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

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

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

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

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

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

To find yourself, think for yourself.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul follows the body, and ought to be pure.

Wisdom begins in wonder.