To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.