More quotes by 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."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."