My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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