The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

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