Quotes About Wisdom

Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

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.

And give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch, but in true grace and heartfelt gratitude to the god

When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.

Other people's mistakes? Leave them to their makers.

Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age.

To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of:

The end and object of a rational constitution is, to do nothing rashly, to be kindly affected towards men, and in all things willingly to submit unto the gods. Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time.

The opinion of 10,000 people is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

The universe is change; life is your perception of it.

Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry? It is no new thing; it is not the first, nor shall it be the last, if thou live long. At best suffer patiently, if thou canst not suffer joyously.

Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.

No lo hagas, si no conviene; no lo digas si no es verdad.

For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.

Let not the future trouble you; for you will come to it, if come you must, bearing with you the same reason which you are using now to meet the present.

That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.

consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed. Ninth

in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy