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
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
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
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
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
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- 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 shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- 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 envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 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
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- 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 know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- 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 was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- 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
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
We each have a sixth sense that is
attuned to the oneness dimension in life,
providing a means for us to guide our lives
in accord with our ideas.
- Henry Reed
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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