Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

I know that I know nothing.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.