Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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.
Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
Writing is the geometry of the soul.