More quotes by Socrates

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"I only know that I know nothing"
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."