Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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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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