Wise quotes from ancient Greece. Even the gods cannot change the past. Wisdom of China: quotes and aphorisms of Chinese philosophers Quotes of ancient thinkers
Ancient Greek philosophy can still teach us a lot today. The worldview of ancient philosophers is striking in its optimism, virtue and wisdom. Below in the quotes are 9 life principles that the most famous people professed ancient philosophers Ancient Greece.
- Do everything with unconditional love.
A person should do what he loves. Only then will he succeed. Better to be a good carpenter than a bad banker. Sincere love for your work is a calling.
"Work done with pleasure leads to excellence"- Aristotle.
“It is better to do a small part of the job perfectly than to do ten times more badly”- Aristotle
"Never do what you don't know, but learn everything you need to know"- Pythagoras
"Each person is worth exactly as much as the value of the cause for which he bakes"- Epicurus.
"Where a man is resisting, there is his prison"- Epictetus.
- Do not grumble, do not lose heart, do not live in the past.
The biggest obstacle for a person in this world is himself. Other obstacles and adverse circumstances are the reason for looking for new opportunities and unexpected ideas.
“A person who is dissatisfied with a little is not satisfied with anything”- Epicurus.
"Going to a foreign land, do not turn around"- Pythagoras.
"Live today, forget the past"- an ancient Greek proverb.
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises”- Demosthenes.
"The great science of living happily is to live only in the present"- Pythagoras.
"The first and best victory is the victory over yourself"- Plato.
“In their disasters, people tend to blame fate, the gods, and everything else, but not themselves” - Plato.
- Believe in yourself, listen to yourself and don't always take what others say for granted.
Nobody knows you better than you. In life, you will encounter many people who will share with you their ideas, opinions and visions of various situations. You will meet many people who will give you free advice on how you should manage your life. Listen without judgment, draw conclusions, but follow the dictates of your heart - ancient philosophers call in their aphorisms.
“Learn to listen and you can benefit even from those who speak badly of you”- Plutarch.
"Above all, don't lose your self-respect"- Pythagoras.
"Learn to be silent, let your cold mind listen and listen"- Pythagoras.
“Whatever they think of you, do what you think is fair. Be equally impartial to both blame and praise.”- Pythagoras.
"If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor, but if you live in harmony with people's opinion, you will never be rich"- Epicurus.
- Don't lose faith.
Replace fears and bad feelings with faith and hope. Humility, love and faith can work wonders. Everything will happen at the right time and in the right place.
"Hope is a waking dream"- Aristotle.
“No fruit ripens suddenly, neither a bunch of grapes, nor the fruit of a fig tree. If you tell me that you want figs, I will tell you that time must pass. Let the tree bloom first, and then the fruits will ripen.- Epictetus.
- Always strive to think and feel positive.
The ancient Greeks preached: "Think positively." If negative thoughts fill your head, wave goodbye to them and replace them with positive thoughts about beauty, happiness and love. Focus on the present, and on the things for which you are grateful to God. Avoid negative people around you and always surround yourself with happy and positive people.
“Fear and sadness, which have taken possession of a person for a long time, dispose to illnesses”- Hippocrates.
"The human brain contains the cause of many diseases"- Hippocrates.
"Happiness is up to us"- Aristotle.
“The brain is the place where pleasures, laughter and joys arise. From it come anguish, sorrow, and weeping.”- Hippocrates.
6. Improve yourself and discover new horizons.
"Explore everything, give reason first place"- Pythagoras.
“Work, good spirits and the aspiration of the mind to perfection, to knowledge lead to results that adorn life”- Hippocrates.
7. In a difficult situation, look for strength and courage within yourself.
"Courage is a virtue, by virtue of which people in danger do wonderful things"- Aristotle.
"Courage and fortitude are necessary for people not only against the weapons of enemies, but, equally, against any blows of fate"- Plutarch.
“You don’t develop the courage to be happy in a relationship every day. You develop it into hard times and through all sorts of hardships- Epicurus.
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. This is the greatest quality of a person that should be honored"- Aristotle.
8. Forgive the mistakes of yourself and others.
Treat your mistakes positively useful experience that will help you finally achieve your dreams. Failures and failures are inevitable.
"It's better to expose your own mistakes than someone else's"- Democritus.
“To live and not make a single mistake is not in the power of man, but it is good to learn wisdom from your mistakes in the future”- Plutarch.
“To be mistaken in nothing is the property of the gods, but not of man”- Demosthenes.
“Every business is improved by the mastery of technology. Every skill is gained by practice.”- Hippocrates.
9. Virtue and compassion.
The views of the ancient Greek philosophers have something in common with Christianity that arose later. It is no coincidence that medieval Christian theologians called Aristotle an elemental Christian, although he lived long before the birth of Jesus Christ.
"What is a sense of life? Serve others and do good"- Aristotle.
"Live with people so that your friends do not become enemies, and enemies become friends"- Pythagoras.
"Boys stone frogs for fun, but frogs die for real"- Plutarch.
“Immortality, alien to our nature, and power, which depends mostly on luck, we crave and covet, and moral perfection, the only divine blessing available to us, is put in last place”- Plutarch.
"Two things make a man godlike: life for the good of society and truthfulness"- Pythagoras.
« In order for the sun to rise, there is no need for prayers or spells, it suddenly begins to send its rays to the joy of everyone. So don’t expect applause, noise, or praise to do good, do good deeds voluntarily, and you will be loved like the sun.”- Epictetus.
"Life is short, but honest, always prefer a long life, but shameful"- Epictetus.
"Burning yourself, shine to others"- Hippocrates.
"By caring for the happiness of others, we find our own"- Plato.
“A person who has received a beneficence must remember this all his life, and a person who has rendered a beneficence must immediately forget about it”- Demosthenes.
What is called the theme that will change your life. With pleasant music, you will read quotes taken from the speech of the Dalai Lama on the eve of 2009.
“In reality, everything is completely different than in reality”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
"It takes two to tell the truth - a narrator and a listener"
Henry David Thoreau
"Human disputes are endless, not because it is impossible to find the truth - but because those who argue are looking not for truth, but for self-affirmation."
“God sends despair to us not to kill us - He sends it to us to awaken new life in us!”
Hermann Hesse
He who has many vices has many masters.
F. Petrarch
“No matter how many mistakes you make and no matter how slowly you move forward, you will still do it faster than those who don’t even try.”
“People were made to be loved, and things were made to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the other way around.”
Dalai Lama
“Action is everything; reputation is nothing."
"Theory, my friend, is dry, but the tree of life is forever green."
Johann Wolfang von Goethe
"To see the World in a Grain of Sand,
Heaven is in the Wild Flower,
Squeeze Infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity - in an hour."Truth is rarely pure - and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
You must not confuse loneliness with solitude. Loneliness for me is a psychological, spiritual concept, while solitude is physical. The first numbs, the second calms.
Carlos Castaneda
“There are no stupid people in the world. There are those who see the truth and those who use it ... "
Anita Joan Smith
“Giving - make it easy, losing - make it easy, saying goodbye - make it easy.
Giving, losing, saying goodbye, do not grieve about the future, but give thanks to the past.ancient chinese wisdom
F. Bacon
"Be a friend of truth to the point of martyrdom, but do not be its defender to the point of intolerance."
Pythagoras
“Avoid people who consider arrogance to be courage, and kindness to be weak-willed. And avoid those who think that chatter is wisdom and silence is ignorance. Don't you see, lions are silent, but they are feared, and dogs bark loudly, but they are driven away by stones.
Imam ash-Shafi" and
"The truth, which has become the property of the crowd, is very soon distorted beyond recognition."
Buffon Georges Louis Leclerc“The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. Lies are always complex, pretentious and verbose.
L. Tolstoy
"A helpful fool is more dangerous than an enemy."
I.A. KrylovOne woman had a dream that the Lord was standing behind the counter of the store instead of the seller.
- God! It's you!
“Yes, I am,” God replied.
– What can I buy from you?
“Everything,” was the answer.
– Then, I would like to buy health, happiness, love, success, and a lot of money!
God smiled and went for the ordered goods. Soon He returned with a small cardboard box.
- This is all?! the woman exclaimed.
“Yes,” God replied calmly, “didn’t you know that I sell only seeds?“During his lifetime, Chen Zhen often said that he was not like the others. But then he died, and his grave is no different from the others. »
Ba Jin
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
L. Tolstoy
"The great science of living happily is to live only in the present." "Keep your children's tears so that they may shed them on your grave." "Do great things without promising great things." "Friendship is equality."
“When you rise, your friends will know who you are. When you fall, you find out who your friends are."
“Life is like games: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest to watch.”
Pythagoras
"Happy is the one whom love, not morality, prevents from changing."
“Think, look for a reason, find a way when faith would make you different - not in external difference, wearing a badge, which is petty absurd”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Any person, without explaining anything to him, can be put in prison for ten years, and somewhere in the depths of his soul he will know why”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“Home squabble is a family dispute, as a result of which the wife tells her husband that she has nothing more to say, and he is obliged to listen to it for an hour.”
Evan Ezar
"Make sure you get what you want, otherwise you'll have to love what you get."
George Bernard Shaw
“If you are of sound mind, do not dream that the one who fell into your arms with such speed will be faithful to you.”
Ovid
"Friendship is such a holy, sweet, lasting and permanent feeling that it can be kept for life, unless you try to ask for a loan."
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If a woman hates you, it means she loved you, loves or will love you.”
German proverb
"There is no woman who manages to say goodbye in less than thirty words."
George Bernard Shaw
"There is only one way to happiness - to stop worrying about things that are not subject to our will."
Epictetus
"Intoxication with oneself is accompanied by snacking on others."
Gennady Malkin
“From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely long future; in terms of old age, a very short past."
A. Schopenhauer
“Heroes are not born. Heroes die...
“Don't judge a man by his friends; don't forget that Judas' friends were impeccable."
“You don’t need to look into the abyss very often, otherwise the abyss will start looking into you.”
“I never resist temptation, for I know from experience that what is harmful to me does not tempt me”
George Bernard Shaw
Who does not know the price of silence,
He does not know the price of words.
Do not hear in noisy companies
Words that are full of meaningE. Pomytkin
“Life is a mystery that one must be able to accept and not torment oneself with the constant question: “What is the meaning of my life?” It’s better to fill life with meaning and things that are important to you.”
P. Coelho
“He who is strong in body can endure both heat and cold. So the one who is mentally healthy is able to endure anger, grief, joy, and other feelings.
Epictetus
"Don't speak unless it improves the silence ».
Chinese folk wisdom
“Right words are not graceful. Beautiful words are not trustworthy. Kind is not eloquent. The eloquent cannot be kind. He who knows does not prove, he who proves does not know. The sage accumulates nothing. He does everything for people and gives everything to others. Heavenly Tao benefits all beings and does not harm them. The Tao of the sage is action without struggle.”
Zhang 81 from the Book of the Way and the Power.
In the struggle, the shield and spear will be depleted
each of us will die in the struggle.
You went out to look - so look for yours "! -
no one else will give up his own. You wanted to say the right word,
but wounded by the word of other people, -
you knew and they didn't want to know
nobody's borrowed ideas. No exit. But where is the entrance
you can just leave the light
and if someone enters there -
he will know there is no way out. Then without words, without your ideas,
go ahead without persuasion,
many very kind people
silently follows you. They will go without asking about -
are you enlightened or in darkness,
just everyone is ready to find
the most important thing on earth. ABOUT! How easy it is not to suffer!
Be silent and give wisdom to the way,
after all, the most important thing is to become a light!
And you can immediately see where to go.
The true vocation of each consists in only one thing - to come to oneself, to find one's own, and not one's favorite destiny and surrender to it internally, undividedly and unshakably
Hermann Hesse
"And yet death remains forever and ever the only predetermined event for each of us."
“What would we do if we built the world, brought into being a great being, and saw that here something has failed, there it is only half right, and here both are out of place? Now they would intervene, tear them out, destroy them, wouldn't they?
We would not notice the value contained even in the imperfect, the spark of true light in the failed, we would forget how important it is.
"Only one step between me and death"
“What is the longest word? Eternity. The shortest now. It doesn't even last a second. Consider that now is the time in which we must prepare ourselves for eternity.”
“One should be extremely humble and have nothing to protect, not even one's own person. The self must be protected, but not protected.
“If you ignore the enemy and yourself, then you are a complete fool and will definitely be defeated in every battle.
If you know yourself but don't know the enemy, for every battle won you will be defeated in the next.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you will win every battle.".Sun Tzu
"Failure is just an opportunity to start again, but more wisely."
Henry Ford
“If the problem can be solved, don't worry about it. If the problem is unsolvable, there is no point in worrying about it.”
Dalai Lama
“Even if you are very talented and put in a lot of effort, some results just take time: you won’t have a baby in a month even if you get nine women pregnant.”
Warren Buffett
“Our big disadvantage is that we give up too quickly. The surest way to success is to keep trying one more time.”
Thomas Edison
"The most outstanding talents are ruined by idleness."
Montaigne
"The wise man loves to learn, the fool loves to teach."
Bulat Okudzhava
“The best that we are capable of is manifested in us when we are backed up against the wall, when we feel the sword raised above our heads! Personally, I wouldn't want it otherwise!
Carlos Castaneda
"Do not be shy before the enemy: man's worst enemy is himself."
Kozma Prutkov
"Only he is worthy of life and freedom, who goes to battle for them every day..."
I.V. Goethe
"Truth is not transmitted, truth is comprehended."
“The happiest people don’t have the best. But they make the best out of what's out there."
“If you are upset with something, then you live in the past, if you are worried about something, you live in the future, if you experience bliss and lightness, you live in the present.”
Where are you now?
"We don't see things as they are - we see things as we are."
“No matter what the rake teaches, but the heart believes in miracles”
"Most people are only as happy as they choose to be"
Lincoln
“Sometimes it’s good to be quiet so that you can be heard. And disappear to be seen"
Be busy. It's the cheapest medicine on earth - and one of the most effective."
“Real men have a happy woman, the rest have a strong woman”
“If you could kick the man responsible for most of your troubles in the ass, you wouldn’t be able to sit for a week.”
“The downside of loneliness is that after a while you start to enjoy it, and you just don’t let anyone into your life.”
"Courage is not in the strength of the hand and not in the art of wielding a sword, courage is in mastering oneself."
"Each of us has only one true calling - to find the way to ourselves."
Hermann Hesse
"There are no unattainable goals, there is a high coefficient of laziness, a lack of ingenuity and a stock of excuses."
"Don't waste your time on someone who doesn't want to spend it on themselves."
Gabriel Marquez
"Where there are few words, they have weight"
Shakespeare
"The sun is in every person, just let it shine"
“Follow your desire and it will follow you. The universe will open doors for you where walls used to be.”
Joseph Cambeil
"The less a person needs, the closer he is to the gods"
Socrates
“Take care of those who love you: they usually come suddenly and leave silently”
"Don't lose the worthy... for the sake of the available"
"Life begins where your comfort zone ends"
Napoleon Hill
"It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop"
Confucius
“Any goal will be achieved by the one whose deeds, thoughts and words are one!”
“When we lose our sense of self-importance, we become invulnerable.”
“Everyone knows from childhood that this and that is impossible. But there is always an ignoramus who does not know this. He makes discoveries."
Einstein
“Life is not a property to be protected, but a gift to be shared with other people”
William Faulkner
"Dreams are reality waiting in the wings"
“The temptation to give up is especially strong not long before victory.”
“The highest pleasure is to do what others think you cannot do”
“There are no hopeless situations, extra people, random meetings and wasted time.”
“Ancient Wisdom is learned not in order to dominate and command over someone, and not in order to be proud of other Clans. Ancient Wisdom has always been learned in order to realize one's own Life Path, and in order to pass it on to the Descendants.
“Waking up in the morning, ask yourself: “What should I do?” In the evening, before going to sleep: "What have I done?"
Pythagoras
“If the problem can be solved, don't worry about it. If the problem is unsolvable, there is no point in worrying about it.”
Dalai Lama
“Once in a lifetime, fortune knocks on the door of every person, but at this time a person often sits in the nearest pub and does not hear any knock.”
Mark Twain
“Our big disadvantage is that we give up too quickly. The surest way to success is to keep trying one more time.”
Thomas Edison
"Poor, unfortunate, unhappy and unhealthy is the one who often uses the word "tomorrow."
Robert Kiyosaki
“Old people always advise young people to save money. This is bad advice. Don't hoard nickels. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar in my life until I was forty.”
Henry Ford
"Hard work is the accumulation of easy things that you didn't do when you should have."
John Maxwell
"I used to say, 'I hope things change.' Then I realized that the only way for everything to change is for me to change myself.”
Jim Rohn
"Do today what others do not want, tomorrow you will live in a way that others cannot."
Methuselah lived 969 years. You, dear boys and girls, will see more in the next ten years than Methuselah saw in his entire life.
Mark Twain
If you hate, then you have been defeated
Confucius
Life itself is a blank canvas, and it will become what you draw it. You can draw suffering, or you can draw bliss. In this freedom is your greatness.
“Bliss is not something that can be achieved.
It's already there - you're born with it.""There are things that can only come about because of you,
and there are things that can only appear when you are not.
Winged expressions, great sayings, quotes, wise sayings.
Everything can be a teacher
The only true courage is to be yourself.
To become a blacksmith, you need to forge.
The best teacher in life is experience. Takes expensive, but explains intelligibly.
Learn from your mistakes. This possibility is the only thing that is useful in them.
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Courage, will, knowledge and silence are the property and weapons of those who follow the path of perfection.
When the disciples' ears are ready to hear, a mouth appears ready to fill them with wisdom.
The lips of wisdom are open only to the ears of understanding.
Books give knowledge, but they cannot tell everything. First seek wisdom in the scriptures, and then seek the Highest instruction.
The soul is a prisoner of its ignorance. She is chained by the chains of ignorance to an existence in which she cannot control her own destiny. The goal of each virtue is to eliminate one such chain.
Those who gave you the body endowed it with weakness. But ALL that gave you a soul armed you with determination. Act decisively and you will be wise. Be wise and you will find happiness.
The greatest treasures bestowed on man are judgment and will. Happy is he who knows how to use them.
Everything can be a teacher.
"I" chooses the teaching method "I".
Renunciation of freedom of thought may mean the loss of the last opportunity to understand the laws of the universe.
True knowledge comes from the higher path, which leads to the eternal Fire. Delusion, defeat and death arise when a person follows the lower path of earthly attachments.
Wisdom is the child of learning; Truth is the child of wisdom and love.
Death comes when the goal of life is reached; death shows the meaning of life.
When you meet a disputer who yields to you, do not try to crush him with the force of your arguments. He is weak and will betray himself. Do not respond to evil words. Don't indulge your blind passion to win at any cost. You will defeat him already by the fact that those present will agree with you.
True wisdom is far from stupidity. A wise man often doubts and changes his mind. The fool is stubborn and stands his ground, knowing everything but his ignorance.
Only one part of the soul penetrates the earthly chain of time, while the other remains in timelessness.
Avoid talking to many about your knowledge. Do not keep it selfishly for yourself, but do not expose it to the ridicule of the crowd. A loved one will understand the truth of your words. A distant one will never be your friend.
May these words remain in the chest of your body and keep your tongue from idle talk.
Beware of misunderstanding the teaching.
The spirit is life, and the body is needed in order to live.
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Great Sayings of the Wise Men
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Confucius
What you believe in is what you will become.
Feelings, emotions and passions are good servants but bad masters.
Who wants, he is looking for opportunities, who does not want - looking for reasons. - Socrates
You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created the problem. - Einstein
Whatever the surrounding life, but for us it is always painted in the color that arises in the depths of our being. - M. Gandhi
The observer is the observed. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
The most important necessity in life is the feeling of being in demand. Until a person feels that he is needed by someone, his life will remain meaningless, devastated. - Osho
sayings
- God always surrounds us with those people with whom we need to be healed of our shortcomings. - Simeon Athos
- The happiness of a married person depends on those to whom he is not married. - O. Wilde
- Words can prevent death. Words can revive the dead. - Navoi
- When you do not know the words, then there is nothing to know people. - Confucius
- He who neglects the word does harm to himself. - Proverbs of Solomon 13:13
To be conscious means to remember, to be aware, and to sin means not to be aware, to forget. - Osho
Happiness is your inner nature. It does not need any external conditions; it just is, happiness is you. - Osho
Happiness is always within yourself. - Pythagoras
Life is empty if you live only for yourself. By giving, you live. - Audrey Hepburn
Listen to how a person insults others, this is how he characterizes himself.
No one leaves anyone, just someone goes ahead. The one who is left behind believes that he was abandoned.
Take responsibility for the result of communication. Not "I was provoked", but "I allowed myself to be provoked" or succumbed to the provocation. This approach helps to gain experience.
A touchy person is a sick person, it is better not to communicate with him.
Nobody owes you anything - be grateful for the little things.
Be understandable, but don't demand to be understood.
Idioms
- The whole world is a theater, and people are actors. - Shakespeare
Horatio, there is much in the world that our wise men never dreamed of...
And there are spots in the sun.
Harmony is the union of opposites.
Great Quotes
Time does not like to be wasted. - Henry Ford
Failure is just an opportunity to start again, but more wisely.- Henry Ford
Self-doubt is the cause of most of our failures. - C. Bowie
Attitude towards children is an unmistakable measure of the spiritual dignity of people. - Ya.Bryl
Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger surprise, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me. - I. Kant
If the problem can be solved, don't worry about it. If the problem is unsolvable, there is no point in worrying about it. - Dalai Lama
Knowledge always brings freedom. - Osho
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About friendship
A true friend is known in adversity. - Aesop
My friend is the one to whom I can tell everything. - V.G. Belinsky
As rare as true love is, real friendship occurs even less frequently. - La Rochefoucauld
Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never. - J. Rousseau
Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman is considered profound, why?
Because they can not find the reasons for her actions. The reason for her actions never lies on the surface.The same affects in men and women are different in tempo; that is why a man and a woman do not cease not to understand each other.
Everyone bears in himself the image of a woman, perceived from his mother; this determines whether a man will honor women in general, or despise them, or, in general, treat them with indifference.
If spouses did not live together, good marriages would occur more often.
A lot of short madness - this is what you call love. And your marriage, like one long folly, puts an end to many short folly.
Your love for your wife and your wife's love for her husband - oh, if only it could be pity for the suffering hidden gods! But almost always two animals guess each other.
And even your best love is only an enthusiastic symbol and painful fervor. Love is the torch that should shine on your higher paths.
A little good food often affects how we look at the future: hopefully or despondently. This is true even in relation to the most sublime and spiritual spheres of man.
Sometimes sensuality overtakes love, the root of love remains weak, unattached, and it is not difficult to tear it out.
We praise or blame, according to whether one or the other gives us a greater opportunity to discover the brilliance of our mind.
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Διογένης, 412-323 π. X. Κυνικός φιλόσοφος
- Ο θρίαμβος της νίκης του εαυτού μας είναι το στέμμα της φιλοσοφίας.
The triumph of victory over oneself is the crown of philosophy - Ο καλύτερος τρόπος να βασανίζεις τους εχθρούς σου είναι να έχεις πάντα καλή διάθεση
The best way torment your enemies, be always in good mood - Όταν είναι κανείς νέος, είναι πολύ νωρίς. Όταν είναι γέρος, είναι πολύ αργά
When the young is very early, when the old is too late
Αριστοτέλης, 384-322 π. X. Αρχαίος Έλληνας Φιλόσοφος
- Η ευγνωμοσύνη γερνάει γρήγορα
Gratitude gets old fast - Η ομορφιά είναι θείο δώρο
Beauty is a gift from God - Οι ρίζες της μόρφωσης είναι πικρές, ο καρπός όμως γλυκός
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet - Φίλος είναι μια ψυχή που κατοικεί σε δύο σώματα
A friend is one soul living in two bodies - Έξις δευτέρα φύσις
Habit second nature - Τίποτα δεν γίνεται χωρίς αιτία
Nothing happens without a reason - Η αυτογνωσία είναι αρχή της ανθρώπινης σοφίας
Self-knowledge is the beginning of human wisdom - Μόνο με κόπο μπορείς να μάθεις
You can only learn by hard work. - Εργαζόμαστε, για να έχουμε ελεύθερο χρόνο, κ πολεμούμε, για να ζούμε ειρηνικά
We work to have free time and fight to live peacefully - Από τη δικαιοσύνη πηγάζουν όλες οι αρετές
From justice come all virtues - Περισσότερο πρέπει να τιμούμε αυτούς που ανατρέφουν κ εκπαιδεύουν καλά τα παιδιά, παρά εκείνους οι οποίοι τα γεννούν
We should value more those who raise and bring up children well than those who give birth to them. - Η φτώχεια που δεν έχει χρέη είναι μεγάλος πλούτος
Poverty without debt is great wealth - Η μόρφωση είναι στολίδι στην ευτυχία και καταφύγιο στη δυστυχία
Education is an ornament in happiness and a refuge in misfortune. - Ο στόχος του πολέμου είναι η ειρήνη
The purpose of war is peace
Πλάτων, 427-347 π. X. Φιλόσοφος
- Ένα από τα πιο καλά κτήματα για τους ανθρώπους είναι η εκπαίδευση
One of the best assets for people is education. - Ότι είναι τα μάτια για το σώμα είναι και οι γνώσεις για το πνεύμα
What eyes are to the body, so is knowledge to the spirit.
Σωκράτης, 469-399 π. X. Φιλόσοφος
- Εν οίδα ότι ουδέν οίδα
I know that I don't know anything - Δεν είμαι αθηναίος, ούτε Έλληνας πολίτης, αλλά πολίτης του κόσμου
I am not an Athenian, not a Greek, I am a citizen of the world - Ο φθόνος είναι έλκος της ψυχής
Envy is an ulcer of the soul - Ο καλύτερος γάμος: όταν η γυναίκα είναι τυφλή και ο άνδρας κουφός
The best marriage is when the wife is blind and the husband is deaf - Η ομορφιά είναι μια βασίλισσα που κυριαρχεί όχι και πολύ καιρό
Beauty is a queen who reigns for a very short time
Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος, Μαθηματικός - Αστρονόμος - Φιλόσοφος, 569 - 500 π. X.
- Μην ψάχνεις την ευτυχία: είναι πάντοτε μέσα σου
Do not look for happiness - it is always inside you - Ο Θεός δεν έχει καλύτερη κατοικία πάνω στη γη, από την καθαρή ψυχή
God has no better home on earth than a pure soul - Αν δεν μπορείς να έχεις έναν πιστό φίλο, να είσαι ο ίδιος φίλος του εαυτού σου
If you can't have a true friend, be your own friend - Το κύπελλο της ζωής θα ήταν πολύ γλυκανάλατο, αν δεν έπεφταν μέσα μερικά πικρά δάκρυα
The cup of life would be very insipid if a few bitter tears had not fallen into it. - Τους φίλους να μην τους κάνετε εχθρούς κ τους εχθρούς να καταφέρνετε να τους κάνετε φίλους
Do not make friends enemies, but try to make enemies friends
Alexander the Great (Alexander the Great) (356-323 BC) king of Macedonia, commander
Alexander the Great, arguing with one musician about some issues of harmony, thought he had convinced him. However, he, with a slight smile, said: "Let no such misfortune befall you, king, so that you understand it better than me."
You will get as much land as is enough for your burial. (Indian sages - Alexander the Great).
There is nothing more slavish than luxury and bliss, and nothing more regal than work.
Alexander said that sleep and intimacy with a woman, more than anything else, make him feel like a mortal, since fatigue and voluptuousness stem from the same weakness of human nature.
When those close to him asked Alexander, who was noted for his quick feet, if he would like to compete in running on Olympic Games, he replied: "Yes, if kings are my rivals!"
I owe Philip that I live, and Aristotle that I live worthily.
If I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes.
When Darius offered him [Alexander] 10,000 talents and half the power over Asia, Parmenion said: "I would accept if I were Alexander." - "And I, the witness Zeus, - answered Alexander, - if I were Parmenion."
Just as there are no two suns above the earth, so there are two kings over Asia. (Alexander the Great - to the Persian king Darius.)
Those close to him advised Alexander to attack the enemies at night. He replied: "I do not steal the victory."
Once, after reading a long letter from Antipater with accusations against Olympias, Alexander said: "Antipater does not know that one tear from his mother will make thousands of such letters forgotten."
He [Alexander] sent 50 talents as a gift to the philosopher Xenocrates, but he refused, saying that he did not need money. "Does Xenocrates not even have a friend?" Alexander asked.
Alexander said that he considered Achilles lucky, because during his lifetime he had a devoted friend, and after his death - a great herald of his glory.
I see that there will be a great contest over my grave.
Scopas the Thessalian
The Thessalian Scopas, when asked for some superfluous and useless thing from his home decoration, replied: "But it is this superfluous that makes us happy, and not what everyone needs."
Pelopidas (c. 410-364 BC) Theban commander
The Theban Pelopidas went to war, and his wife asked him to take care of himself. "This must be said to others," said Pelopidas, "and the commander must take care of his fellow citizens."
Philip II of Macedon (c. 382-336 BC) king of Macedonia from 356 BC, father of Alexander the Great, conqueror of Greece.
About to stop at a beautiful place, but suddenly learning that there was no grass for a pack donkey, he [Philip] said: "This is our life: we live in such a way that donkeys will like it!"
When he [Philip] wanted to take one well-fortified place, and the scouts reported that it was difficult to reach and boundless from everywhere, he asked: "Is it really so difficult to reach that a donkey with a load of gold could not pass?"
When his friends were indignant at being booed at the Olympic Games by the Peloponnesians, whom he treated so well, he [Philip] said: "What would happen if I treated them badly."
When someone told Leonid that he was leading too few people into battle, he replied: "Too many - because they are doomed to death."
When his wife, during the departure, asked him [Leonid] if he would say something to her in parting, he said, turning around: "I wish you a good husband and good children."
When, during the battle at Thermopylae, someone exclaimed: "Because of the barbarian arrows, the sun is not visible," Leonidas said: "Well, we will fight in the shade."
One of the Spartans said: "The barbarians are already near." Leonid answered: "So, we are next to them."
Leonid ordered his soldiers to have breakfast, announcing that they would have lunch in Hades.
Euclid (turn of IV-III centuries BC) mathematician, worked in Alexandria
What is accepted without evidence can be rejected without evidence.
There is no royal way in geometry. (Euclid's answer to the Egyptian king Ptolemy I, who asked him to show him an easier way to study geometry).
Sophocles (c. 496-406 BC) Athenian tragic playwright
There was a first time for everything in the world.
Do not praise him while he is alive!
Sophocles said that he composes people as they should be, and Euripides - as they are.
Sophocles, already under the burden of years, when asked if he indulges in love pleasures, (...) replied: "May the gods protect me from this! I gladly fled from them, as from a rude and mad master."
How terrible can the mind be if it does not serve man.
Happiness does not help the negligent.
Happiness does not accompany the cowardly.
Great things don't happen all at once.
Those who fall into error unintentionally are not greatly angry.
Mind is undoubtedly the first condition for happiness.
It is better to be simple and honest than smart and deceitful.
Talking a lot and saying a lot are not the same thing.
Wisdom is the mother of happiness.
Whom God wants to destroy, he first deprives him of reason.
Socrates (470-399 BC) philosopher, student of Anaxagoras, from Athens
No one can learn anything from a person who does not like.
In his prayers, he [Socrates] simply asked the gods to grant good, for the gods know better than anyone what good consists in.
Socrates advised avoiding such foods that tempt a person to eat without feeling hungry. (...) He joked that Kirk [Circe] must have turned people into pigs, treating them to such foods in abundance; and Odysseus (...) refrained from excessive use of them and therefore did not turn into a pig.
Those who want to have a lot of trouble themselves and deliver them to others, I (...) would put in the category of those fit for power.
If, living among people, you do not want to rule or be subject and do not voluntarily serve the rulers, then I think you see how the strong (...) and entire communities are able to keep everyone separately in slavery.
It is not very easy to find a job for which you will not hear reproaches; it is very difficult to do something in such a way that nothing is wrong.
Envious people (...) are only those who grieve over the happiness of friends.
It is difficult (...) to find a doctor who would know better than the person himself (...) what is good for his health.
Before the start of the trial of Socrates, one of his friends asked: "Shouldn't (...) you also think about what to say in your defense?" - Socrates (...) answered: "But wasn't (...) my whole life a preparation for defense?"
Fervently devoted to Socrates, but a simple-hearted man, a certain Apollodorus, said: "But it is especially hard for me, Socrates, that you are unjustly sentenced to death." Socrates, they say, patted him on the head and said: "And you (...) would be nicer to see that I was justly sentenced?"
I went to the poets (...) and asked them what exactly they wanted to say, in order, by the way, to learn something from them. I'm ashamed (...) to tell you the truth, but it still needs to be told. (...) Almost all those present there could better explain what was done by these poets than they themselves. (...) Not by wisdom they can do what they do, but by some kind of inborn ability and in a frenzy, like fortunetellers and soothsayers; for these also say many good things, but they do not know at all what they are talking about.
The wisest is the one who, like Socrates, knows that nothing is truly worth his wisdom.
There is no such person who could survive if he openly opposed (...) the majority and would like to prevent all the many injustices and lawlessness that are committed in the state. No, whoever really stands up for justice, even if he is destined to survive for a short time, should remain a private person, and should not enter the public arena.
Socrates used to say that he himself eats to live, while other people live to eat.
If someone were to take that night on which he slept so that he did not even dream, compare this night with the rest of the nights and days of his life and, on reflection, say how many days and nights he lived better in his life and more pleasant than that night, then, I think, not only every simple person, but even the Great King himself would find that it is worthless to count such days compared to the rest. So if death is like that, I (...) will call it gain, because in this way it turns out that the whole life is nothing better than one night.
Think less of Socrates, but mostly of truth.
Last words: We owe Asclepius a rooster. So give, don't forget. (The rooster was brought to Asclepius, the god of healing, by convalescents. Socrates believed that death for his soul was recovery and liberation from earthly hardships).
They say that Euripides gave him [Socrates] the work of Heraclitus and asked his opinion; he replied: "What I understood is fine; what I did not understand, probably, too."
Often he [Socrates] would say, looking at the many market goods: "How many things are there without which you can live!"
Surprisingly, every person can easily say how many sheep he has, but not everyone can name how many friends he has - they are so worthless.
Beauty is a short-lived kingdom.
Socrates said (...) that he knows only that he knows nothing.
To a man who asked whether he should marry or not, he [Socrates] replied: "Do what you want, you will repent anyway."
When he [Antisthenes] began to flaunt a hole in his cloak, Socrates, noticing this, said: "Through this cloak I see your vanity!"
Socrates once had to exhort (...) Alcibiades, who was shy and afraid to speak to the people. To encourage and reassure him, Socrates asked: "Don't you despise that shoemaker over there?" - and the philosopher called his name. Alcibiades answered in the affirmative; then Socrates continued: "Well, what about this peddler or handkerchief-maker?" The young man confirmed again. “So,” Socrates continued, “the Athenian people are made up of such people.
When he [Socrates] was told: "The Athenians condemned you to death," he replied: "But nature condemned them themselves."
Seeing that the government of thirty tyrants is killing the most glorious citizens and persecuting those who have significant wealth, Socrates (...) said: "(...) There has never been such a brave and daring tragic poet who would bring to the stage doomed to death chorus!"
When Socrates fell ill in old age and someone asked him how things were going, the philosopher replied: “Excellent in every sense: if I manage to get better, I will make more envious people, and if I die, more friends.”
It is not difficult to praise the Athenians among the Athenians.
Socrates, when he was already sentenced to death and imprisoned, having heard how one musician sang the verses of Stesichorus to the accompaniment of the lyre, asked him to teach him while there was still time; To the question of the singer, what good would it do him, when he had to die the day after tomorrow, Socrates replied: "To leave this life knowing a little more."
The sun has one drawback: it cannot see itself.
I only know that I know nothing.
The less a person needs, the closer he is to the gods.
Who wants to move the world, let him move himself!
A good start is not a trifle, although it starts with a trifle.
Education is a difficult matter, and improving its conditions is one of the sacred duties of every person, for there is nothing more important than the education of oneself and one's neighbors.
There is only one good - knowledge and only one evil - ignorance.
The highest wisdom is to distinguish between good and evil.
Wisdom is the queen of heaven and earth.
It is easier for people to keep a hot coal on their tongue than a secret.
A good adviser is better than any wealth.
Good people should be trusted by word and reason, not by oath.
Speak so that I can see you.
It is better to die courageously than to live in shame.
Without friendship, no communication between people has value.
It would be good for a person to examine himself, how much he costs for friends, and that he tries to be as expensive as possible.
The love of a woman is more to be feared than the hatred of a man. It is a poison, all the more dangerous because it is pleasant.
The flame is inflamed by the wind, and attraction - by proximity.
Beauty is a queen who reigns for a very short time.
Marriage, to tell the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Get married no matter what. If you get caught good wife, you will be an exception, and if you are bad, you will become a philosopher.
In clothes, try to be elegant, but not dandy; the sign of grace is decency, and the sign of panache is excess.
When the word does not hit, then the stick will not help.
What man, being a slave to pleasures, does not pervert his body and soul.
He is the richest who is satisfied with the little, for such contentment testifies to the wealth of nature.
I want to make it more balanced with the help of gymnastics of the whole body.
The best seasoning for food is hunger.
You cannot heal the body without healing the soul.
If a person takes care of his own health, it is difficult to find a doctor who would know better for his health than he does.
Pythagoras (VI century BC) philosopher, mathematician, religious and political figure, founder of the Pythagorean school, born on the island of Samos
All things are numbered.
Everything that is known has a number, for it is impossible to understand anything, or to know without it.
Harmony is (..) the agreement of the discordant.
A sage, according to him [Pythagoras], can only be a god, not a man. (...) And a "wise-minded" philosopher is simply one who is attracted to wisdom.
Life (...) is like games: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest ones to watch; so also in life others, like slaves, are born greedy for fame and gain, while philosophers are born greedy for only one truth.
Give in to lust in winter, don't give in in summer; it is less dangerous in spring and autumn, but dangerous at any time and not good for health.
Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality.
Friendship is equality.
The soul makes a circle of inevitability, successively putting on first one, then another life.
When you go abroad, don't look back.
Pythagoras forbids praying for himself, because we do not know what is our use.
He [Pythagoras] divided human life like this: "Twenty years - a boy, twenty more - a youth, twenty more - a youth, twenty more - an old man."
“Do not stir fire with a knife,” that is, do not hurt an angry and arrogant person with harsh words.
“When leaving, do not look back,” that is, before death, do not cling to life.
"Be with those who carry the burden, do not be with those who dump the burden," - with this he ordered people to be encouraged not to idleness, but to virtue and work.
Without the mind, a person does not know anything healthy, nothing true, and is not even able to catch anything with any kind of feelings - only the mind itself sees everything and hears everything, the rest is both blind and deaf.
Where (...) there is a need, there is an opportunity.
Let us treat everyone prudently and fairly, not only the prudent and just, and let us not be honest with the honest and the wicked with the wicked.
If shameful things are done with pleasure, then the pleasure passes, but shame remains; but if a meritorious effort is made, then the effort passes, but the meritorious remains.
More often lose measure in drinking than in eating.
Pythagoras forbids, without the order of the commander, that is, the deity, to leave his guard post, leaving life. (About suicide).
Among the talking creatures there are gods, there are people, and there is also Pythagoras.
Blessed be the divine number that gave birth to gods and people.
Life is like a game: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest to watch.
The goblet of life would have been sweet to the point of cloying if bitter tears had not fallen into it.
If you can be an eagle, do not strive to be the first among the jackdaws.
Two things make a person godlike: living for the good of society and truthfulness.
Be a friend of truth to the point of martyrdom, but do not be its defender to the point of intolerance.
Whatever they think of you, do what you think is fair. Be equally indifferent to censure and praise.
A statue is adorned by the appearance, and a man by his deeds.
Waking up in the morning, ask yourself: "What should I do?" In the evening, before going to sleep: "What have I done?"
Do great things without promising great things.
Do not close your eyes when you want to sleep, not having analyzed all your actions for the past day.
Try not to cover up your faults with words, but heal with accusations.
To reason alone, as a wise guardian, should be entrusted with all life.
Explore everything, give reason the first place.
It is more useful to throw a stone at random than an empty word.
However short the words "yes" and "no" may be, they still require the most serious reflection.
It is the same thing to take away the bitterness from the wormwood and to cut off the impudence from the word.
Joke, like salt, should be used with moderation.
In order to understand the manners of any people, try first to learn their language.
Be silent or say something better than silence.
Flattery is like a weapon in a picture: it gives pleasure, but no benefit.
Choose your friend; you cannot be happy alone: happiness is a matter of two.
Live with people so that your friends do not become enemies, and enemies become friends.
A man dies intoxicated with wine; he rages in the intoxication of love.
Prudent wife! If you want your husband to spend his free time near you, then try so that he does not find so much pleasantness, pleasure, modesty and tenderness in any other place.
Cherish your children's tears so they can shed them on your grave.
Wash the offense you have received not in blood, but in Lethe, the river of oblivion.
Above all, don't lose your self-respect!
Do not do anything shameful either in the presence of others or in secret. Your first law should be respect for yourself.
During anger one should neither speak nor act.
Just as old wine is unsuitable for drinking much, so rough treatment is unsuitable for an interview.
Drunkenness is an exercise in madness.
The foolish when drinking wine reach intoxication, and in misfortunes - to a complete loss of mind.
Ask a drunkard how could he stop drinking? I will answer for him: let him often remember the things he does while drunk.
In braggarts, just as in gilded weapons, the inside does not correspond to the outside.
Only an ignoble person is able to praise in the face, and slander behind the eyes.
No one should transgress the measure either in food or drink.
Artist Thomas Cole
This collection of wise quotes, aphorisms and sayings is a continuation of a previously published post:.
Judging by the number of views, the visitors of the site liked the wisdom of the ancients, and I decided to continue publishing. Maybe you get a whole collection of wisdom, quotes and aphorisms from the times of Ancient Egypt to the present day.
In the meantime, a selection of quotes from the sages of ancient Greece.
Quotes, aphorisms and sayings of the Greek sages
For the love of children, some people shouldn't have them.
Wise men speak, but ignoramuses from the People's Assembly decide things.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
The Athenian reproached him, Anacharsis, for being a Scythian. Anarchsis replied: "If I am a shame - my homeland, and you are a shame to your homeland."
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
Safe ships are ships that have been pulled ashore.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
The market is a place specially appointed to deceive and rob one another.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
An evil person is like coal: if it does not burn, then it blackens you.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
It is also possible that a lot of incredible things happen.
Ancient Greece. Agathon =
Everyone touched by Eros becomes a poet.
Ancient Greece. Agathon =
Even the gods cannot change the past.
Ancient Greece. Agathon =
In the end, giving up everything, he [Anaxagoras] took up the speculation of nature, without worrying about any matters of state.
He was asked: “And you don’t care about the fatherland?”
He replied: “Not at all, I really care about the fatherland!” and pointed to the sky.
Anaxagoras, after the death of his beloved son, did not fall into madness, as those around him expected. When asked about the reason, he replied, "I always knew that I had begotten a mortal."
Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras of Klazomensky =
Someone lamented that he was dying in a foreign land; Anaxagoras said to him: "The descent to Hades is the same everywhere."
Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras of Klazomensky =
Nothing can be known, nothing can be learned, nothing can be ascertained: the senses are limited, the mind is weak, life is short.
Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras of Klazomensky =
Characteristic of wisdom is the ability to find for everyone their own kind of wisdom, and ignorance tends to treat different people with monotonous speech.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Artist Albert Joseph Moore
Lovers often lie and promise the impossible.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
The beginning of education consists in the study of words.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Do not neglect your enemies: they are the first to notice your mistakes.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
An educated and intelligent person is difficult to bear, since foolishness is an easy and not burdensome thing, and the mind is adamant, unshakable, its severity is invincible.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Virtue is the same for both man and woman.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Pleasure is good, but [only] when it does not cause repentance.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
The lions took the floor when, having gathered in council, the hares demanded equality for all.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
A holiday is an occasion for gluttony.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
One should strive for the pleasures that come after work, and not before work.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Politics should be treated like fire: do not get too close so as not to burn yourself, and not too far away so as not to freeze.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Do not notice the old man's mistake: it is useless to replant an old tree.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Ignorant people are like those who are awake in a state of sleep.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
When asked which woman is better to marry, he [Antisthenes] replied: "A beautiful woman will be a common property, an ugly woman will be your punishment."
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
When asked what is most blessed for a person, he [Antisthenes] said: "To die happy."
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
When asked what philosophy gave him, he [Antisthenes] replied: "The ability to talk with oneself."
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Artist Hans Zatzka
Someone said that war destroys the poor; Antisthenes remarked: "On the contrary, she gives birth to them in multitude."
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Once, when Antisthenes exclaimed: “Ah, who will save me from suffering!” Diogenes showed him a dagger and said: “That's who” - “I said: from suffering, not from life!” Antisthenes objected.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
States perish when they cease to distinguish the bad from the good.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Better to fight among the few good people against many bad people than among many bad people against a few good ones.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Restraint is more necessary for those who hear bad things about themselves than for those who are thrown with stones.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
It is better to fall to the vultures than to fall to the flatterers. Those devour the dead, and these - the living.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
You need to get along with those women who themselves will be grateful for this.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Finished works he, Apelles (painter and court painter of Alexander the Great), exhibited in open gazebo and he himself, hiding behind the picture, listened to the remarks of those passing by, as he considered the people a more attentive judge than himself. Once, they say, a spectator-shoemaker noted that on the boot, one loop less than it should be depicted on the inside. The next day, proud of the fact that the omission indicated by him was corrected, the shoemaker began to invent himself about the image of the foot. Then the enraged artist came out of hiding and exclaimed: "Shoemaker, judge no higher than the boot."
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
I am a foreigner everywhere.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
In no case do I put myself among those who want to rule. It is a difficult task to get what you need for yourself; but only a complete madman, not content with this, can impose on himself yet another burden - to deliver to all citizens what they need.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Someone brought his son to study with him, Aristippus asked for five hundred drachmas. The father said: "With this money I can buy a slave!"
- "Buy," said Aristippus, "and you will have two whole slaves."
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Artist John William Godward
He [Aristippus] asked the man who reproved the luxury of his table: “Would you refuse to buy all this for three obols?” “Of course not,” he replied. “So, it’s just that money is more valuable to you than pleasure to me.”
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Indeed, generosity will never ruin Dionysius [ruler of Syracuse]: to us, who ask a lot, he gives little, and to Plato, who takes nothing, he gives a lot.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
When teaching brought him [Aristippus] a lot of money, Socrates asked him: “Why do you have so much?” And he replied: “For the same thing, for which you have so little.”
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Just as those who eat a lot are not healthier than those who eat the most necessary things, so the true scientists are not those who read a lot, but those who read useful things.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
If luxury were bad, it would not be at the feasts of the gods.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
It is better to be a beggar than an ignoramus: if the first is deprived of money, then the second is deprived of the image of a man.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Your right is to swear, my right is not to listen.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Isn't it all the same whether to occupy a house in which many lived, or one in which no one lived? And is it all the same to sail on a ship where thousands of people have already sailed, or where no one has sailed yet? It's just the same whether to live with a woman that many already knew, or with one that no one touched.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
The best part is not to abstain from pleasures, but to rule over them without being subject to them.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Children should be taught what will be useful to them when they grow up.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
