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

"Understanding a question is half an answer."

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

"Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house."

"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."

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

"The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am."

"To move the world we must move ourselves."

"He who is not contended with what he has would not be contended with what he would like to have."

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"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say."

"Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god."

"There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse."

"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?"

"I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them."

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

"The mind is everything; what you think you become."