No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Be as you wish to seem.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

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

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

Let the questions be the curriculum.

Contentment is natural wealth.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

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

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth