I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

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.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

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.

Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.