Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

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.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.