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.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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To be is to do.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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