Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
How many things there are which I do not want.
One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who...""Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "Ab...
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of...
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
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 suffere...
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.