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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- 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
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
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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)
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- 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
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- 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
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- 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
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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
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
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- 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
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
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
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
It's foggy and it's gray - let's play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
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