If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

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

Go wherever the facts lead.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.