The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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?
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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