Socrates

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

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

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

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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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

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

Wisdom begins in wonder.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.