"To express one badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul."

"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle."

"And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows"

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

"And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows"

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny"

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

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

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?"

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"

"Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?"

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

"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man..."

"Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one."