I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.