“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? ”

“The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”

“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.”

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.”