God 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.
SOCRATESI do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
More Socrates Quotes
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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