Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESI 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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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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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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