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

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.