"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

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

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

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”

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

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."

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

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

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com