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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
Related topics: Cynical Religion
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- 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
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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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that 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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- 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
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
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
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