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\"Wise<\/a>
Wise quotes from the Ancients<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wise quotes from the Ancients, the best quotations and aphorisms from the old great Greek, Roman and oriental philosophers and thinkers who formed our culture; edited by our Carl William Brown<\/a>. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.<\/span>
\nEpictetuts<\/span><\/p>\n

Self control makes the man. A man without discipline is a boy full of reactions, rather than a man of good actions.<\/span>
\nGreek Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Smart people learn from everything and everyone; average people from their experiences; stupid people already have all the answers!<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Pleasure in the job, put perfection in the work.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can beat one idiot with 40 facts.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory.<\/span>
\nChinese proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

You will always have those only riches that you have donated.<\/span>
\nMarco Valerio Marziale<\/span><\/p>\n

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.<\/span>
\nThales<\/span><\/p>\n

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

You should not honor men more than the truth.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth triumphs by itself, the lie always needs accomplices.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of being a slave is to rule one\u2019s master.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.<\/span>
\nHerodotus<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ancient<\/a>
Ancient Greek philosophers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

Every action has its pleasures and its price.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

The learning and knowledge the we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Happiness resides not oin possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.<\/span>
\nAntiphanes<\/span><\/p>\n

Sic lusus animo debent aliquando dari, ad cogitandum melior ut redeat tibi. (Cos\u00ec, di tanto in tanto, devi lasciare svagare la mente, perch\u00e9 torni a te pi\u00f9 pronta quando occorre pensare.)<\/span>
\nFedro, Favole, 3, 14.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest wealth is to be content with little.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The measurement of a man is what he does with power.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.<\/span>
\nThales<\/span><\/p>\n

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.<\/span>
\nHerodotus<\/span><\/p>\n

Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Educate the children and it won\u2019t be necessary to punish the men.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Socrates<\/a>
Socrates wise ancient philosopher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.<\/span>
\nSun Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offence at everything.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure of a man is what he does with power.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It is not the man who has too little, but ht eman who craves more, that is poor.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.<\/span>
\nThales<\/span><\/p>\n

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

All cruelty spring from weakness.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Get busy with life\u2019s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the small one.<\/span>
\nPericles<\/span><\/p>\n

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Disturbance comes only from within, from our own perceptions.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

An honest man is always a child.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Open your mind before your mouth.<\/span>
\nAristophanes<\/span><\/p>\n

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Aristotle<\/a>
Aristotle wise ancient quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.<\/span>
\nSeneca the Younger<\/span><\/p>\n

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.<\/span>
\nSun Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing yourself is The best fighterthe beginning of all wisdom.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.<\/span>
\nAntisthenes<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also commit injustice, by doing nothing.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.<\/span>
\nXenophanes<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain thought without accepting it.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenges you face introduce you to your strengths.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the most intelligent of the animals \u2013 and the most silly.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.<\/span>
\nHerodotus<\/span><\/p>\n

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Wise<\/a>
Wise quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one\u2019s feet.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverbs<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the most intelligent of the animals \u2013 and the most silly.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn\u2019t hurt anybody\u2019s feeling?<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.<\/span>
\nAlexander the Great<\/span><\/p>\n

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one\u2019s ignorance.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Laws are like spider\u2019s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.<\/span>
\nSolon<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be overheard complaining; not even to yourself.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know, except pain.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Educate the children and it won\u2019t be necessary to punish the men.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Rumi<\/a>
Rumi wise quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishment.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

A friend to all is a friend to none.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

The reward of suffering is experience.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.<\/span>
\nPlautus<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man doesn\u2019t say every single thing he thinks, but thinks every single thing he says.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

Run from what\u2019s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I\u2019ll be mad.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to be silent than to dispute with the ignorant.<\/span>
\nPythagoras<\/span><\/p>\n

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.<\/span>
\nPersian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another\u2019s world.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

A great man is hard on himself, a small man is hard on others.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Give instructions only to those people who seek knowledge after they have discovered their ignorance.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

You can kill a man but you can\u2019t k\u00ecll an idea.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Wise<\/a>
Wise oriental quotes Lao-Tzu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been a seeker, and still I am; but I stopped asking the books, and the stars. I started listening the teaching of my soul.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.<\/span>
\nJuvenal<\/span><\/p>\n

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.<\/span>
\nPlotinus<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing permanent, except change.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.<\/span>
\nBuddha<\/span><\/p>\n

A short saying often contains much wisdom.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his errors.<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullio Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure of a man is what he does with power.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.<\/span>
\nPublilius Syrus<\/span><\/p>\n

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.<\/span>
\nSolon<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t confuse power with leadership. The wise don\u2019t need power to lead.<\/span>
\nTao Te Ching<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Confucius<\/a>
Confucius ancient wise quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Our life is what our thoughts make it.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is the food of the soul.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.<\/span>
\nPhaedrus<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.<\/span>
\nLucius Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

To find yourself, think for yourself.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

One cannot step twice in the same river.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

True wisdom lies in one\u2019s confession about the limits of one\u2019s knowledge.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The universities do not teach all things\u2026 So a doctor must seek old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller\u2026 Knowledge is experience.<\/span>
\nParacelsus<\/span><\/p>\n

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a free thinker and don\u2019t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the student is truly ready, the teacher disappears.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Day by day, what you think and what you do is who you become.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Buddha<\/a>
Buddha ancient quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Love is often bitter.<\/span>
\nPlauto<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is like fish, bad if it\u2019s not fresh.<\/span>
\nPlauto<\/span><\/p>\n

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

You have to keep breaking your heart, until it opens.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is a serious mental disease.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The hottest love has the coldest end.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the beauty of the soul.<\/span>
\nSt. Augustine<\/span><\/p>\n

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.<\/span>
\nVirgil<\/span><\/p>\n

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.<\/span>
\nBuddha<\/span><\/p>\n

What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.<\/span>
\nGalius Valerius Catullus<\/span><\/p>\n

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Love of kindness without a love of learning will be obscured by foolishness.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Love of persistence without a love of learning will be obscured by stubbornness.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Love of wisdom without a love of learning will be obscured by excessive speculation.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

To love a thing means wanting it to live.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

He is not a lover who does not love forever.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

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