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He is a man of courage who does not run away,
by Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I 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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

An honest man is always a child.
- 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

The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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

False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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 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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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

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

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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 hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon


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