To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

Athletics have become professionalized.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.