More quotes by Socrates

"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..."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"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."
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."