I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.