"The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be."

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

"Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."

"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"

"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."

"And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rises as the other falls."

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

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

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

"An unconsidered life is not one worth living."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

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

"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."

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

"Through your rags I see your vanity."

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."

"I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do you– each one of you, individually and in private– what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and as rational as possible."

"Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death."

"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."