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

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease to practice philosophy..."

"When a democratic city athirst for liberty gets bad cupbearers for its leaders and is intoxicated by drinking too deep of that unmixed wine, and then, if its so-called governors are not extremely mild…"

"I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue come money and every other good of man, public as well as private."

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."