He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.

Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."

He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."

Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"

Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule in his comedies, as making the worse appear the better reason.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander’s.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.