No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades—that of government.

When the mind is thinking, is it simply talking to itself, asking questions and answering them, and saying yes or no.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don’t forget it.

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world.

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

How many things I can do without!