Socrates — "If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how …"

"The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing."

"It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death."

"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…"