“An unconsidered life is not one worth living.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”

“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.”

“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”

“Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.”