Living Rightly Quotes

• 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.

  Socrates

  Good Life, Inspirational Life, Matter

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Life Lesson, Learning

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

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

  Socrates

  Funny, Spiritual, Intelligent

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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.

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

  Socrates

  Life, Matter, Treatment

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

  Socrates

  Hate, Philosophical, Hatred

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

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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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.

  Horace

  Running, Courage, Procrastination

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• 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

  Life, Adversity, People

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

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Ignorance, Thinking

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

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• 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.

  James Allen

  Mistake, Thinking, Yesterday

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

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