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Socrates Quote - I 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.

I 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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Evil Good Ignorance Knowledge
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
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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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Improvement Inspirational Labor Men Time Writing Yourself
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
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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Goodness Inspirational Saddle Struggle Tame
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Angry Character Disappointment Hurt Respect
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Consider Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Knowledge Philosophy Teaching Thinking
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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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Intelligence Knowledge Wisdom
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Envy One Liner Soul
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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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Change Determination Himself Improvement One Liner World
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Crush Improvement Wisdom Yourself
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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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace

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