Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

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

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

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

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

All thinking begins with wondering

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

To harm another is to harm oneself

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

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

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.