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Be as you wish to seem. ...
by Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
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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)
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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 envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- 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 unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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
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
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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- 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
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
You Quotes and Sayings
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
