Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.