"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?"
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."
"Know thyself."