Socrates

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"

"If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman."

"I only know that I know nothing"

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

"I only know that I know nothing"

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"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."

"Know thyself."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

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

"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."

"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."

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