The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
An honest man is always a child.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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.
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Mother Of The Civil Rights Movement.
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
I only knew that as I was being arrested it was the last time I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind.
Be as you wish to seem.
My mother taught me to read even before I began school.
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.