It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

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.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.