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"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."

"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."


"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."


"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."


"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers."


"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."


"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."


"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?"
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