By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.