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Be as you wish to seem. ...
by Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

Related topics: Values

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

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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

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

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

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I 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

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

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

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

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

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

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

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

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

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

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

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

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- 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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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

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

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

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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- 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

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole


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