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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
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Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
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He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- 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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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
An honest man is always a child.
- 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
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
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
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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
There is beauty and serenity in the eye of the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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