An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.