One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

There is but one evil, ignorance.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.