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If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- 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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- 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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
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 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 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
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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
I submit to you that if a man hasn't
discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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