416 quotes found
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, f...”
“He who is brave is free”
“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butch...”
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
“As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome ...”
“It's easier to get philosophers to agree than clocks.”
“Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many thingseloquence cannot, nor the liberal studiessince the mind, when distracted, take...”
“When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness...”
“And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had h...”
“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”
“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage." Seneca”
“The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.”
“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.”
“Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.”
“The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and something that may surprise you more it takes just as long to learn how to die.”
“How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-pr...”
“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”
