"If he who undeceives people concerning their own ignorance would make them well-pleased with him, he must deceive them."

"I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy."

"I am not at all a politician."

"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."

"And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I thi…"