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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) 
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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 way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- 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
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 slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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 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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- Robin Williams as John Keating
in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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