By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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God 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.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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