“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if y...” — Socrates Quote

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.

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

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.