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Socrates Quotes

«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.»
«Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Equality, Man, Superiority, Women | Keywords: equal to, superior
«See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: promontory
«As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: celibacy, repent
«Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Pain | Keywords: cowards, pains
«Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.»
«A multitude of books distracts the mind.»
«We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance.»
«All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Soul | Keywords: Divine, immortal, immortals, righteous, souls
«The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.»

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