You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they hav...
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.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
If a man would move the world he must first move himself.
Know thyself.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ...
All I know is that I do not know anything
As for me all I know is that I know nothing.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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 wil...
Be true to thine own self
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think