To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

It is only in death that we are truly cured of the ‘sickness’ of life.

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.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

All things in moderation, including moderation.

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

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

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

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

My friend — care for your psyche — know-thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

Be as you wish to seem.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

I only know that I know nothing.

Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

Know thyself.

Be true to thine own self.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing.

Your mind is your predicament.

Intelligent individuals learn from everything and everyone; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers. – Socrates77. There is no learning without remembering.

I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.

The warm love has the coldest end.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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

True wisdom lies in one’s confession about the limits of one’s knowledge.

True wisdom lies in one’s confession about the limits of one’s knowledge.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

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

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

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

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

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

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

An honest man is always a child.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and I am no quite sure that i know that.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

An unconsidered life is not one worth living.

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

The really important thing is not live, but to live well.

The really important thing is not live, but to live well.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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

There is no illness of the body except for the mind.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

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

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

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

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.