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.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.