The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.