Socrates

"If you want to be a good companion on the journey of life, you must be willing to bear other people's burdens as well as your own."

"The richest person is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."

"In the hour of need, one's true companions reveal themselves."

"The architect of one's fate is within oneself; no external power can alter the course of a determined soul."

"To say that a man is made for knowledge and wisdom as a man is made for other virtues, is to point to his greatest power."

"When a man runs away from his fear, he only runs toward it."

"The sculptor must remove all excess stone to reveal the beauty within."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bond to one another."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"Be as you wish to seem."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"Strong minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; weak minds discuss people."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Once we perceive something as beautiful, we start to see the world through rose-colored glasses."

"To understand a man, know his pleasures."

"If you want to be wrong then follow the masses."

"Virtue does not come from money, but money comes from virtue."

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"The only thing that is constant is change."

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

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth?"

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

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"The difficulty is not so much to die for your country as to live for it."

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

"Know thyself."