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Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Related topics: Values
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
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The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- 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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- 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
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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
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
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
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
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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 reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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
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