“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”

“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

“The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.”

“those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.”

“But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing; he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.”

“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”