The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.