"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls."

"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."

"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

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

"Thou should eat to live; not live to eat."

"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul"

"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."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god."

"We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him."

"Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat."

"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."

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