The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

not angry with me, for you know who are responsible, but with them.
Spoken by Socrates’ jailor in ‘Phaedo’ 116c
This was the end, Echechrates, of our friend; a man of whom we may say that of all whom we
met at that time he was the wisest and justest and best.
On the death of Socrates in ‘Phaedo’ 118a
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
‘The Republic’ VIII, 352d
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any
difficulty contradict Socrates.
‘Symposium’ 201c
4.69 Plautus c.254-184 B.C.
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn’t yet found out what he’s like.
‘Asinaria’ l. 495 (often cited simply: Homo homini lupus A man is a wolf to another man)
Dictum sapienti sat est.
What’s been said is enough for anyone with sense.
‘Persa’ l. 729 (later proverbially: Verbum sapienti sat est A word is enough for the wise)
Labrax: Una littera plus sum quam medicus.
Gripus: Tum tu Mendicus es?
Labrax: Tetigisti acu.
Labrax: One letter more than a medical man, that’s what I am.
Gripus: Then you’re a mendicant?
Labrax: You’ve hit the point.
‘Rudens’ l. 1305
4.70 Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) A.D. 23-79
Bruta fulmina.
Harmless thunderbolts.
‘Historia Naturalis’ bk. 2, ch. 113
Hominem nihil scire nisi doctrina, non fari, non ingredi, non vesci, breviterque non aliud
naturae sponte quam flere!
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can
neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but
weep.
‘Historia Naturalis’ bk. 7, ch. 4
Semper aliquid novi Africam adferre.
Africa always brings [us] something new.
‘Historia Naturalis’ bk. 8, ch. 42; often quoted in the form Ex Africa semper aliquid novi Always something