True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

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.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.