Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

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.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

To harm another is to harm oneself

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.