Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity which is one of the three treasures of life and comes from living in accordance with all aspects of nature and knowing the difference between good and bad.

DEFICIENCY: Slavery, Sickness, Sadness, Wealth, Arrogance, Intelligence
BALANCE: Freedom, Life, Happiness, Divinity, Honor, Wisdom
EXCESS: Anarchy, Death, Emptiness, Poverty, Shame, Ignorance
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
1. Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
2. Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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The traitor rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

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It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

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Give heed to the appearance of neighbourhoods, a flourishing country should show its prosperity.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

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Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

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No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.

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If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don’t know about my other vices otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

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Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

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Where there’s life, there’s hope.

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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

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Life without the Courage for death is slavery

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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The secret to happiness isn’t gaining more but learning to enjoy less.

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Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire.

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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

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Freedom is the power to live as we choose.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

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We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; that which you do not need is always expensive.

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God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.

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