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Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
by Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Quotes by Socrates
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
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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 shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
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Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- 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
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
People Quotes and Sayings
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
