Quotes

Education is a restraint for the young, a consolation for the old, wealth for the poor and an ornament for the rich.

Of wild beasts the worst bite is the slanderer’s; of tame ones, the flatterer’s.

Asked why people give alms to beggars but not to philosophers, he answered that they fear they may become beggars themselves, but never philosophers.

The sun too visits filthy places without being defiled.

What have you gained from philosophy? — This at least, if nothing else: to be prepared for every fortune.

How can death be evil, when in its presence we are not aware of it?

What wine do you find pleasant to drink? — That for which other people pay.

The mind of a master does not stop on any one thing, even for an instant.

If you fix your eye on a single leaf, you will not see all the others.

Act without letting your mind be captured by thinking about every move.

If your mind stops at your opponent’s sword, you lose your freedom to act.

Do not let the mind stop in any one place.