All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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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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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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