I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESGod would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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