I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.