All SOCRATES Quotes about “Blessings”

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
“Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka aretÃ©), but excellence (aka aretÃ©) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.”
“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.”
“Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.”
“The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”
“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state”
“...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.”

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