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Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
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Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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
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I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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
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
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- 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 nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- 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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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