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.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

You don't know what you don't know.

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

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.