If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.