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"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us..." - Socrates
Is it possible that Socrates truly said this? Wasn't Greece, in his lifetime, polytheistic? Is it a mistranslation? What single god could he be referring to?
If it really is a valid quote and someone can find the citation, I would like that very much.
In the text where you see God, he is not referring to the Judeo-Christian 'God', he is referring to 'the god' Apollo, whose oracle decreed that 'no man is wiser than Socrates' which sent him into the whole philosophical investigation because he didn't consider himself wise at all.
I can't find a source for that quote.
To the second part of the question "is this a legitimate quote of Socrates", the answer is "highly unlikely", because Socrates didn't leave any writings of his own, and even if you sourced it to Plato, that wouldn't be a guarantee that Socrates actually said that.