I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.