Socrates

Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC)

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

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

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

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

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

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

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.