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The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates 
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- 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
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
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
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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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 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
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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
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