“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers the other classes.”

-Aristotle

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

-Voltaire

“Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

-Dalai Lama

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

-Plato

“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.”

-Dalai Lama

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

-Hippocrates

“Success has always been a great liar.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“This country is for, of, and by the people, not for, of, and by the government.”

-Dr Ben Carson

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”

-Plato

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

-Seneca

“Faith is not wanting to know what is true.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”

-Anaxagoras

“There’s on one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

-Socrates

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

-Epicurus

“The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public.”

-Bertrand Russell

“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, ’til philosophers become kings in this world, or ’til those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”

-Plato

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

-Plato

“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”

-Boethius

“A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.”

-Eric Hoffer

“Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”

-Henri Frederic Amiel

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

-Aristotle

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

-Socrates

“Holding on to your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

-Buddha

“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”

-Jack Kevorkian

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”

-Bishop George Berkeley