How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same experience again. He makes me admit that, in spite of my great defects, I neglect myself and instead get involved in Athenian politics. So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all claimed that they knew nothing and so I guess I know even less.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.