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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- 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
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
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- 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
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
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 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
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- 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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- 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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- 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 the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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