"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows what is good for us."

"It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death."

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

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"[Meletus] cannot harm me, for I do not think it is permitted for the better man to be harmed by the worse."