"Beloved Pan and all other gods, who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

"Those who are hardest to love need it the most."

"My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."

"Through your rags I see your vanity."

"And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body."

"May the inward and outward man be as one."

"I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium. ...I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfect--for I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he who sees them in their working and effects."

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

"Human nature will not easily find a better helper than Eros."

"I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this?"

"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual"

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"And a thing is not seen because it is visible, but; conversely, visible because it is seen; nor is a thing led because; it is in the state of being led, or carried because it is in the; state of being carried, but the converse of this. And now I think, Euthyphro, that my meaning will be intelligible; and my; meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous; action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither; does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a; state of suffering because it suffers. Do you not agree?"