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The greatest way to live with honor in this world
by Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
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Quotes by Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) 
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- 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 shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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 unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- 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
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
Greatest Quotes and Sayings
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
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 harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
My greatest Power and my greatest Inner Peace come
when I Intend my future, and when I avoid Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
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 gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
