Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

All thinking begins with wondering

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?

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.