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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. ...
by Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates PHOTO

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 PHOTO

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Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi) PHOTO

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

 

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- 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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- 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

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

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

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein

I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln

What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino

Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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