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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
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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
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
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
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
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that 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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
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
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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 have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
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)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
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
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
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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