'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

How many things I can do without!

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

Wisdom begins in wonder.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.