Socrates — "I do not think that I am a bad man, but I do think that I am a bad orator."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time."

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."

"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…"

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