So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

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 Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.