It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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