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Socrates Quotes

Socrates quotes about kindness

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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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy. Socrates
And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight’s being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge..."
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions;..."
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is..."
Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle. Socrates

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