I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
From Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
An honest man is always a child.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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