"He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed."

"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

"Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ..."

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."

"And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows"

"My advice to you is getting married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

"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?"

"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue."

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"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."

"Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one."

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."

"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul."

"To move the world we must move ourselves."

"I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this?"

"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."

"To be is to do."