More quotes by Socrates

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"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."
"God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods..."
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."