Love is a kind of warfare.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.
Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
A A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it’s warmth. is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it’s warmth.
Give heed to the appearance of neighbourhoods, a flourishing country should show its prosperity.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
All states in the world, large or small, are cities of Heaven, and all people, young or old, honorable or humble, are its subjects.
And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. 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.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.
For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant’s threatening countenance.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.
You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.
There are no chains like hate…dwelling on your brother’s faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered
