Quotes About Philosophy

Haec ego non multis, sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole man, by far the most important is the acquisition of friendship.

We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

Bukan kekurangan yang menyakitkan, tetapi menanggung rasa iri yang timbul dari angan-angan yang sia-sia.

Ketidakbahagiaan datang lewat ketakutan atau keinginan yang tidak terkendali.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

Non aspetti il giovane a filosofare, né il vecchio di filosofare si stanchi: nessuno è troppo giovane o troppo vecchio per la salute dell'anima.

The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects to remain so might live in happiness even with Zeus.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.

It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of merrymaking, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which produce a pleasant life; it is sober reasoning, searching out the grounds of every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest disturbances take possession of the soul.

If death is we are not, if we are death is not.

Death means nothing to us

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?

A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

For if death is we are not,if we are death is not

Non bisogna ragionare sulla natura per enunciati privi di riscontro oggettivo e formulazioni di principi teorici, ma in base a ciò che l'esperienza sensibile richiede.