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.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.