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?

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

Let the questions be the curriculum.