Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When asked what he would take to let a man give him a blow on the head, he said, "A helmet."
Diogenes Laërtius
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus T Cicero
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.
Stobaeus
Mens sana in corpore sano.
Juvenal
If I were pressed to say why I loved him,
I feel that my only reply could be:
'Because it was he, because it was I'.
Michel de Montaigne
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Men create the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
Hesiod
Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb
Pythagoras
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
Archilocus
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
Plato
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
Aristotle
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Metaphysica Aristotle
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
Proverbs 47-8
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Philo
True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -