All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
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)
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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 way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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
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
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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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
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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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