Socrates

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

life

Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

life

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

life

Socrates

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

life

Socrates

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.

marriage

Socrates

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

marriage

Socrates

If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

argument

Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

beauty

Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

honesty

Socrates

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

immortality

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

life

Socrates

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

marriage