I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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.
And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
No human thing is of serious importance.
For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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