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.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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 kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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.
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