In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

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

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

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.