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I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets; for these also say many beautiful things, but do not know anything of what they say.

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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.

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... the body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and is also liable to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after truth: and by filling us so full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies, and idols, and every sort of folly, prevents our ever having, as people say, so much as a thought.

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Born: 470 BC

Died: 399 BC (aged 71)

Bio: Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

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soul, man, body, death, true, life, evil, wisdom, live, knowledge, truth, philosopher, fear, nature, virtue

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