It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Follow the argument wherever it leads.
Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
I know what I do not know.
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.