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.
SOCRATESOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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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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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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