"He would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live."

"I do know, however, that it is wicked and shameful to do wrong, to disobey one's superior, be he god or man."

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

"For fear of death is indeed nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know."

"I would have you know that, if you kill such a one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me. Meletus and Anytus will not injure me: they cannot; for it is not in the nature of …"