Quotes

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

It is not things that disturb us, but our opinions about things.

Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole of life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.