He is richest who is content with the least.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

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

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice...

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase...