Wise Man Once Said Quotes - Page 6

• Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

  Laozi

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

  Aristotle

  Life, Death, Education

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Greed is permanent slavery

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Greed

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• Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

  Sima Qian

  Hurt, Medicine, Words Of Wisdom

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom

  On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

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• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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• Only the educated are free.

  Epictetus

  Life, Education, Teacher

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

  Ovid

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

  Julius Caesar

  Moving On, Death, Wisdom

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• Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

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  Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Aristotle

  Life, Success, Wisdom

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

  Dalai Lama

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

  Sophocles

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 685,

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• Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

  Euclid

  God, Nature, Math

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• Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

  Roger Bacon

  Knowledge, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

  "LIFE" Magazine, (p. 73), September 8, 1958.

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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