"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."

"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."

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

"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?"

"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, me to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better? Only God knows."

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