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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
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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)
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
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The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- 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
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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
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
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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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 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
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
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
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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 poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
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