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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) 
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
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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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you 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
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- 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
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- 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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
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
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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
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
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
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