I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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