Author: Socrates

Cited by

• Catherine Lim (1)
  • IN: Unhurried Thoughts at my Funeral (2005) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: The unquestioned life is not worth living.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, Greek
• Sasha Dawn (1)
  • IN: Oblivion (2014) Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 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 delvier all their sublime messages without knowing in the lease what they mean,
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Jessica and Bain, Donald Fletcher (1)
  • IN: Murder, She Wrote: Death of a Blue Blood (2014) Fiction, Crime, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Kresley Cole (1)
  • IN: A Hunger Like No Other (2006) Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
    FROM: The Republic by Plato, (-360), Essay, Greece
• Steven James (1)
  • IN: Singularity (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
    FROM: Apology, (-399), NULL, Greece
• Jenny Offill (1)
  • IN: Dept. Of Speculation (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Speculators on the universe... are no better than madmen.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Susan Wiggs (1)
  • IN: Home Before Dark (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and love to chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• A. S. King (1)
  • IN: Ask the Passengers (2012) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• William Boyd (1)
  • IN: Brazzaville Beach (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The unexamined life is not worth living.
    FROM: Apology by Plato, (-399), Book, Greece
• James Rollins (1)
  • IN: The Last Oracle (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest blessings granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
    FROM: On the Oracle of Delphi, (None), NULL, Greece