"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I think I know something, I discover that I had no idea about it."

"The teacher in such case fears and fawns upon the pupils, and the pupils pay no heed to the teacher or to their overseers either."

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

"But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death."

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong."