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«Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
condition, fortune, good condition, good fortune, Human condition, misfortune, overjoyed, permanent, scornful
«I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
«The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.»
«The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.»
«Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty»
«To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
and what is this, As If, evils, for anything, knew, quite, shameful, what is this
«Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.»
«And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.»
«To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
approach, Divine, divinities, divinity, nearer, needs, The Less
«I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.»
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