Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death