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The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
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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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- 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 know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- 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
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest Power and my greatest Inner Peace come
when I Intend my future, and when I avoid Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
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