“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse” 

“The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.” 

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.” 

He was a wise man who invented beer” 

“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.” 

“And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said.

“What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time. Yet if he pursues and catches the one, he is almost always bound to catch the other also, like two creatures with one head.” 

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.” 

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.” 

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.” 

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.” 

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” 

“He was a wise man who invented God.” 

“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.” 

“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.” 

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” 

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” 

“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” 

“I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...” 

"“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.”"

“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.” 

“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.” 

I think I've got wiser.