(Apologies for inserting my own word into quotes in order to maintain the meter)

"Knowledge equals power" - Francis Bacon (1597)
"Pride comes before a fall" - Adapted from "Pride cometh before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall" Proverbs 16:18
"Respect thyself if thou wouldst be respected by others" - originally Confucius, Chinese philosopher and politician (551 - 479 BCE )
"Out of nothing, nothing can become" - Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher (384-322 BCE )
"The people reign, the elite rule" - Italian theorists - Gaetano Mosca and Vilfreda Pareto (Italian theorists)were among the first to argue the inevitability of elitist rule -late 19th century
"If you want peace, prepare for war" - Roman General - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (4 AD)
"Who will guard the guards" - Juvenal, Roman poet (early 2nd century) Also pondered by Plato.
"What hurts us instructs us"-Benjamin Franklin - American statesman, Founding Father (1705-1790)
"Physician heal thyself" - Luke 4:23
"Know thyself" - Socrates (470-399 BCE ) Not the originator but this is an expression of his whole philosophy.
"From flowers bees make honey and spiders poison" - origin unknown. Spiders, however, make poison to liquefy their prey.
"Love conquers all" - Virgil (70-19 BCE ) Ancient Roman poet
"All's well that ends well" -coined by Shakespeare but goes back pre 1325 to 'Proverbs of Hendyng'
"Carpe Diem" - Horace (65-8 BCE) Roman lyric poet.

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