You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.