The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESThe greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
SOCRATESTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESTo move the world we must move ourselves.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
SOCRATESStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATESOne 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.
SOCRATESBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
SOCRATESRemember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
SOCRATESAre 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?
SOCRATESNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESAll men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
SOCRATESGive me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
SOCRATESGod 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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