Quotes About Wisdom

Pecinta ketenaran menganggap aktivitas orang lain adalah kebaikannya sendiri; pecinta kenikmatan, menganggapnya sebagai sensasi yang ia sendiri rasakan; tetapi orang yang cerdas menganggap semua tindakannya sebagai kebaikannya sendiri. - Marcus Aurelius

That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out!

Have you reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? When it performs its proper office what more do you require?

Jangan bertingkah seolah-olah kau akan hidup hingga sepuluh ribu tahun. Kematian ada di dekatmu. Selama kau masih diberkahi hidup, selagi kau masih punya kemampuan, jadilah orang yang baik.

It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you - inside or out

virtudes estoicas que debían regir su vida: sinceridad, sencillez y valor.

If then your eyes have really seen where the truth lies, do not care any more what men shall think of you, but be content if the rest of you life, whether long or short, be lived as your nature wills.

En cada una de tus acciones, hazte la pregunta ¿Cómo me va en eso?¿no tendré luego que arrepentirme de aquello? Dentro de poco habré muerto y todo se acabara ¿Qué mas puedo buscar, si obro al presente como un ser inteligente, sociable, relacionado, por igualdad de derechos con Dios?

Bethink thee how much more grievous are the consequences of our anger and vexation at such actions than are the acts themselves which arouse that anger and vexation.

In reading and writing thou must learn first to follow instruction before thou canst give it. Much more is this true of life.

What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.

No longer wander at hazard; for neither will you read your own memoirs, nor the acts of the ancient Romans and Hellenes, and the selections from books you were reserving for your old age. Hasten then to your appointed end and, throwing away idle hopes, come to your own aid, if you care at all for yourself, while it is in your power.

This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breath and the ruling Reason.

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

No te limites en adelante a respirar el aire que te rodea, sino participa dese ahora en la sabiduría de la inteligencia que lo abarca todo, por que esta facultad intelectiva no menos se difundió por todas partes ni menos se introdujo en cada ser capaz de atraerla, que el aire en el ser capaz de respirarlo.

By not being content with thy ruling Reason doing the work for which it was constituted, thou hast borne unnumbered ills. Nay, 'tis enough!

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here

If any one can prove and bring home to me that a conception or act of mine is wrong, I will amend it, and be thankful. For I seek the truth, whereby no one was ever harmed. But he is harmed who persists in his own self-deception and ignorance.

Si esta el Hombre dotado de sensibilidad e inteligencia y es capaz de fijar altamente la consideración en cuanto pasa en el mundo, no encontrará acaso nada ni aun en lo que acontece como adición natural, qué no suponga una gracia característica.

Remember that to change course or accept correction leaves you just as free as you were. The action is your own, driven by your impulse and judgement, indeed your own intelligence.

Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you've already seen. The world is change. Our life is only perception.

Put an end once for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.