The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
SocratesThe cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
SocratesHe is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SocratesI am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
Socrates