If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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