"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."

"He who is not contended with what he has would not be contended with what he would like to have."

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

"He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed."

"Human nature will not easily find a better helper than Eros."

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy."

"Thou should eat to live; not live to eat."

"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul"

"Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one."