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The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
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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)
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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 way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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
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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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 was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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
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
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
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