Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

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

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

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

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.