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Envy is the ulcer of the soul. ...
by Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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 only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates


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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

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


 

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

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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

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

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

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

False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates

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

All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

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

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

He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

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

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

The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn

Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus

It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)

There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year
for cheating on my metaphysics final ...
I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer


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