Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
It is not the purpose of a juryman’s office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
How many things I can do without!
There is no illness of the body except for the mind.
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
Creation is man’s immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
No one does wrong voluntarily.