Selected quotes - page 6
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Seneca
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
To have beautiful lips, speak only kind words. To have beautiful eyes, seek only the good in people. To have a slender figure, share food with the hungry. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the hairstyle she has. A woman's beauty should be seen in her eyes, the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. A woman's true beauty is reflected in her soul. A woman's beauty is evident in her care and love. A woman's beauty grows as the years go by...
No one heals himself by wounding another.
Ambrose
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Good people do not need law to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
Noam Chomsky
We must end war before war ends us.
H. G. Wells
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
The world does not need our ponderings, opinions, and judgments. It is perishing because of the lack of love.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras
And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
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