To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.