Socrates

"Know that the happiness of your life depends upon the quality of the thoughts which you habitually entertain."

"Leisure is the best of all possessions."

"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."

"When desire is on one side and reason on the other, they do not dwell together peaceably."

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

"The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good."

"The only thing that is permanent is change itself."

"A system of morality which is based on human nature is firmly established."

"Whoever is not against us, is with us."

"The wisest were the happiest, for they were always occupied."

"To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority."

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

"Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas about it."

"We gain wisdom from failure much more than from success."

"The unexamined life is not worth living, because only through examination can we determine our values and our virtues."

"I wish not merely to possess a beauty of the body, but a beauty of the soul."

"A man is never more truthful than when he talks to himself."

"The understanding eye watches itself."

"To see is to understand; to understand is to be wise; to be wise is to endure."

"The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a lover's."

"Our youth now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."