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

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

There is truth in wine and children.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.