Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESGod 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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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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The greatest way to live with honour in this 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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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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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