Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

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

As for me, all I know is I know nothing.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.