Socrates — "I am very conscious that I am not wise at all."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"He marvelled that anyone should make money by the profession of virtue, and should not reflect that his highest reward would be the gain of a good friend."

"And so the probable outcome of too much freedom is only too much slavery in the individual and the state. Probably, then, tyranny develops out of no other constitution than democracy—from the height o…"

"[Meletus] cannot harm me, for I do not think it is permitted for the better man to be harmed by the worse."

"I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess the wisdom which I find wanting in others."