44 quotes found
“To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”
“For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.”
“The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.”
“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them”
“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.”
“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...”
“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...”
“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then comes error In that while all men wish for a happy life they mista...”
“we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of bot...”
“Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not li...”
“Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk”
“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind”
“you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings ofHecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; s...”
“There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with”
“Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.”
“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your d...”
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”
“What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major port...”
“A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.”
“Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.”
“[Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studieswith the result that they know more about devoting care...”
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what youre needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
“All this hurrying from place to place wont bring you any relief, for youre traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.”
