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The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
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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An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- 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
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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
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
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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 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
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- 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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- 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
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
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The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Life expands to fill your dreams.
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
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Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Gather strength from life's storms.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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