wisdom Quotes

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.