Socrates Said He Was Not An Athenian

To Harmodius, Descended From The Ancient Harmodius, When He Reviled Iphicrates [a Shoemaker's Son] For His Mean Birth, "my Nobility," Said He, "begins In Me, But Yours Ends In You.

As Meander Says, "for Our Mind Is God;" And As Heraclitus, "man's Genius Is A Deity."

The Present Offers Itself To Our Touch For Only An Instant Of Time And Then Eludes The Senses.

He Who Cheats With An Oath Acknowledges That He Is Afraid Of His Enemy, But That He Thinks Little Of God.

Being Summoned By The Athenians Out Of Sicily To Plead For His Life, Alcibiades Absconded, Saying That That Criminal Was A Fool Who Studied A Defence When He Might Fly For It.