Aristotle

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Plato

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Epictetus

It takes more than just a good looking body. You have to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom, the secret to freedom is courage.

Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Plutarch

Fate leads those who follow it, and drags those who resist.

Plutarch

Id on't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

An imbalance of rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

To find fault is easy, to do better may be difficult.

Plutarch

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Heraclitus

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Epictetus

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Epictetus

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Epictetus

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.