"Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?"

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."

"And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all."

"Through your rags I see your vanity."

"He who is not contended with what he has would not be contended with what he would like to have."

"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"Beloved Pan and all other gods, who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one."

"Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?"

"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 ..."

"I neither know nor think that I know"

"The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be."

"I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do you– each one of you, individually and in private– what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and as rational as possible."

"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."

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

"Those who are hardest to love need it the most."

"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."