Socrates — "The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to b…"

"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…"

"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."

"If anyone says that he has learned anything from me... be assured that he is not telling the truth."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"For I do believe that I have been sent by God to the city as a gadfly to a great and noble horse which is rather sluggish because of its size and needs to be stirred up by a gadfly."