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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) 
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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 shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that 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
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
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- 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 am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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 the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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