Tag: Socrates
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
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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.
Socrates
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
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An honest man is always a child.
Socrates