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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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