If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
This is a universe that does not favor the timid.
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.
False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.
No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
Improve yourself by other men’s writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.