If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

I know what I do not know.