I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

I only know that I know nothing

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.