I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Talk in order that I may see you.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

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

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.