Socrates Quotes

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Socrates

• God
• Death
• Knowledge
• Joy
• Infinitely

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  • Know
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  • Life
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• You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

  

  Socrates
  • God
  • Death
  • Knowledge