The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

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

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.