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The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- 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
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- 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
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
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- 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
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
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 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
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred,
you are shouldering an immense burden that damages
your happiness, and often your health.
Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are "justified?"
Only you suffer - not the person you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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