"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it."

"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates"

"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. "

"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 will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion."

"I only know that I know nothing"

"And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body."

"I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have."

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."