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Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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 wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- 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
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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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 poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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 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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous
Ask yourself to slow down.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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