Socrates
Quotations
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“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” -Socrates
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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” -Socrates
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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” -Socrates
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” -Socrates
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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” -Socrates
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“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.” -Socrates
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“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” -Socrates
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” -Socrates
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” -Socrates
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“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.” -Socrates
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“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” -Socrates
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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” -Socrates
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“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” -Socrates
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“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.” -Socrates
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“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” -Socrates
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“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” -Socrates
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“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.” -Socrates
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“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.” -Socrates
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“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” -Socrates
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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” -Socrates
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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” -Socrates
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“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” -Socrates
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