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Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Related topics: Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- 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
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
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
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
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- 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
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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
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
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
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
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
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
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
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