"I do know, however, that it is wicked and shameful to do wrong, to disobey one's superior, be he god or man."

"Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will."

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

"I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy I …"

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."