The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.