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The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
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.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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