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

"The teacher in such case fears and fawns upon the pupils, and the pupils pay no heed to the teacher or to their overseers either."

"I know that I know nothing."

"It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit."

"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…"