Category: Quotes

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

–Socrates

http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/socrates.html

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

–Charles Maruice de Talleyrand

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14434b.htm

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

–Sophocles

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/554733/Sophocles

The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.

–The Talmud

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talmud

Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.

–Antiphanes

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Antiphanes

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

–Aristotle

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

–George Washington

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashington

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

–Confucius

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/

All the knowledge I possess anyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

–Johann von Goethe

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285217.Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe