Socrates

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

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

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

To find yourself, think for yourself.