How many things are there which I do not want.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.