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Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.
The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.
Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.
Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".
Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.
If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.
The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.
A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.
Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.