It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
I know that I know nothing.
All that we know is nothing can be known.
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure
I only know that I know nothing
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.
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.
So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.
The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
The warm love has the coldest end.
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
Not I, but the city teaches.
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
I know one thing, that I know nothing.
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.
To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .
