Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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 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 answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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