"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."

"I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy I …"

"This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless."

"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 only wish that wisdom were such a thing as flowed from the fuller to the emptier man, as water does from a full cup to an empty one when we a thread between them."