416 quotes found
“Time discovered truth.”
“Learn how to feel joy.”
“Man is a social animal.”
“He who is brave is free”
“He who is brave is free.”
“Revenge is an inhuman word.”
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that...”
“Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
“f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.”
“Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
“because it is natural to touch more often the parts that hurt.”
“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
“No man was ever wise by chance”
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
“The best ideas are common property”
“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity”
“To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.”
“Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly dig...”
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a mans ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some b...”
“Here is your great soulthe man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather re...”
