"My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth."

"I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them."

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."

"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."

"Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry?"

"And a thing is not seen because it is visible, but; conversely, visible because it is seen; nor is a thing led because; it is in the state of being led, or carried because it is in the; state of being carried, but the converse of this. And now I think, Euthyphro, that my meaning will be intelligible; and my; meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous; action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither; does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a; state of suffering because it suffers. Do you not agree?"

"From the deepest desires often comes the deadliest hate."

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

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"Be as you wish to seem."

"Human nature will not easily find a better helper than Eros"

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."

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

"I neither know nor think that I know"

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."

"May the inward and outward man be as one."

"Is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them."