Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

All thinking begins with wondering

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.