From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
