But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

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?

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.