Wisdom begins in wonder.

Be as you wish to seem.

An honest man is always a child.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.