The unexamined life is not worth living. ★ The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ★ Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ★ Wisdom begins in wonder. ★ An honest man is always a child. ★ Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have laboured hard for. ★ I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. ★ If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. ★ Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. ★ Be as you wish to seem. ★ Let him that would move the world first move himself. ★ From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ★ It is not living that matters, but living rightly. ★ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. ★ If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ★ A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ★ Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. ★ I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
