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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- 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
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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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- 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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- 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
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- 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
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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- 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
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
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- 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 know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- 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
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- 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
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.
- Anonymous
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
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