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The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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
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 know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you 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
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 way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- 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
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- 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
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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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