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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- 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
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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
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
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
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
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