"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

"The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

"This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless."

"Those who render no service either by word or deed, who cannot help army or city or the people itself in time of need, ought to be stopped, even if they have riches in abundance, above all if they are…"

"I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue come money and every other good of man, public as well as private."