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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
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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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know 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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- 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
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
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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 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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- 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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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See beauty in the familiar.
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To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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