“It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.”

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”

“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”

“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.”

“Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.”

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”