Socrates — "I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"But those who obey the rulers it reviles as willing slaves and men of naught, but it commends and honors in public and private rulers who resemble subjects and subjects who are like rulers. Is it not …"

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

"The State demands the strong wine of freedom, and unless her rulers give her a plentiful draught, punishes and insults them; equality and fraternity of governors and governed is the approved principle…"

"The unexamined life is not worth living."