In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Not I, but the city teaches.
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.