We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

As for me, all I know is I know nothing.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

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?