Wise Man Once Said Quotes - Page 7

• Poverty is the worst form of death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Poverty, Form, Worst

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• Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

  Hypatia

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• In the sea there are countless treasures,
  But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sea

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  Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Patience, Spiritual

  "The De Patientia of St. Augustine: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary" by Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Paul Bryan, 1963.

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• We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Generosity, Hatred

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  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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• Through discipline comes freedom.

  Aristotle

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Freedom

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• Put aside your pride,
  Set down your arrogance,
  And remember your grave.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Pride

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• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

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• The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied

  Confucius

  Reflection, Mirrors, Objects

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• There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Struggle

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• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• What we speak becomes the house we live in.

  Hafez

  Inspirational, House, Becoming

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Thinking, Joy

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• A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

  Aristophanes

  Men, House, Words Of Wisdom

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• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

  Matsuo Basho

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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