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.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.