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Socrates quote: "The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God..."
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. Socrates
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. Socrates
For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. Socrates
I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? Socrates
Socrates quote: "Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Let him who would move the world first move himself."
Let him who would move the world first move himself. Socrates
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. Socrates
Socrates quote: "One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no..."
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. Socrates

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