The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
Not I, but the city teaches.
All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?