107 quotes found
“Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.”
“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be rack...”
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception...”
“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”
“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”
“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”
“Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the f...”
“The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption. His soul is restless, fortune uncertain, an...”
“striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-de...”
“For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.”
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
“That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too c...”
“If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm...”
“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
“As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.”
