"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

"Be as you wish to seem."

"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

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

"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. "

"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."

"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."

"To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates"