Socrates — "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature…"

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

"If he who undeceives people concerning their own ignorance would make them well-pleased with him, he must deceive them."

"The State demands the strong wine of freedom, and unless her rulers give her a plentiful draught, punishes and insults them; equality and fraternity of governors and governed is the approved principle…"

"But those who obey the rulers it reviles as willing slaves and men of naught, but it commends and honors in public and private rulers who resemble subjects and subjects who are like rulers. Is it not …"

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."