Living Rightly Quotes

• 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.

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  Socrates

  Life   Adversity   People  

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• All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

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  Socrates

  Men   People   Greek  

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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  Socrates

  Life   Money   Men  

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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  Socrates

  Funny   Spiritual   Intelligent  

  2796

• From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

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  Socrates

  Hate   Philosophical   Hatred  

  1077

• It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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  Socrates

  Life   Matter   Treatment  

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• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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  Socrates

  Inspirational   Success   Men  

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• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

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  Socrates

  Good Life   Inspirational Life   Matter  

  2002

• Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

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  James Allen

  Mistake   Thinking   Yesterday  

  James Allen (2012). “Byways to Blessedness (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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  Socrates

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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  Socrates

  Wise   Wisdom   Philosophy  

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• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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  Socrates

  Motivational   Ignorance   Thinking  

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers See Milton 45

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• Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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  Horace

  Running   Courage   Procrastination  

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• The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art   Life Lesson   Learning  

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