"Know thyself"-The Oracle at Delphi. "Have no friends not equal to yourself."-Confucius. "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."-Confucius. "FAITH: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."-Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary." "Much learning does not teach understanding."-Heraclitus c.540-c.480 BC. "A man's character is his fate."-Heraclitus..ibid "The good befriend themselves."-Sophocles:"Oedipus at Colonus" 406 BC. "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."Euripides:"The Bacchae." c. 407 BC. "The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions."-Confucius. "The superior man does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow."-Confucius. "SELFISH: devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others."-Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary" "A bad beginning makes a bad ending."-Euripides: "Aeolus, fragment 32" c.485-c. 406 BC. "Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."-Euripides: "Phoenix, fragment 413" c.....ibid. "Force has no place where there is need of skill."-Herodotus: "The Histories of Herodotus, book III." c.485-c.425 BC. "The superior man is satisfied and composed, the mean man is always full of distress."-Confucius. "What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others."-Confucius. "ABSURDITY: a statement of belief manifestly inconsistant with one's own opinion."-Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary." "BIGOT: one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."-Ambrose Bierce: ibid. "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."-Socrates: "Diogenes Laertus, lives of eminent philosophers, book II." 468-339 BC. "Many admire, few know."-Hippocrates: "Regimen, book I" c.460- 400 BC. "The life which is unexamined is not worth living."-Plato: "Dialogues" c.428- 348 BC. "No human thing is of serious importance."-Plato: "The Republic" c. ibid "The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it."-Confucius. "The superior man is distressed by his want of ability."-Confucius. "MYTHOLOGY: the body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later."-Ambrose Bierce:"The Devil's Dictionary" "PRESENT: that part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."-Ambrose Bierce: ibid "Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead."-Aristotle:"Diogenes Laertes, lives of eminent philosophers, book V" 384-322 BC. "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."-Aristotle: ibid "Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."-Demosthenes:"Third Olynthiac" c.384-322 BC "The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."-Mencius:"Works, book IV" 372-289 BC "I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment."-Gaius Valerius Catullus:"Carmina, LXXXV" 87- c.54 BC. "Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious."-Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro):"Ecologues, IX" 70-19 BC "What is left when honor is lost?"-Publius Syrus:"Maxim 265" first century BC "Never promise more than you can perform."-Publius Syrus:"Maxim 528" ibid "Nothing is stronger than habit."-Ovid (Publius Ovidius Nasa):"Ars Amatoria, II" 43 BC- c. 18 AD "The good or ill of man lies within his own will."-Epictetus:"Discourses, book I" c.50-120 "No one becomes depraved in a moment."-Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)"Satires, II" c.50- c.130 "An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."-Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)"Letters, book II" c.61- c.122 "That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing."-ibid "Letters, book VII" "Very little is needed to make a happy life."-Marcus Aurelius Antonius "Meditations, VII" 121-180 "The world wants to be deceived."-Sebastian Brant "The Ship of Fools" 1494 "This is the thing I was born to do."-Samuel Daniel "Musophilus" 1599 "Yield not thy neckTo fortune's yolk, but let thy dauntless mindStill ride in triumph over all mischance."-William Shakespeare "King Henry the Sixth, part III" 1591 "Hasty marriage seldom proveth well."-Shakespeare ibid "The man that hath no music in himself,Nor is not moved with concord of sweetsounds,Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;The motions of his spirit are dull as night,And his affections dark as Erebus:Let no such man be trusted."-Shakespeare "The Merchant of Venice" 1596 "Greatness knows itself."-Shakespeare "Henry IV, part I" 1597 "Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."-Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing" 1598 "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."-Shakespeare "As You Like It" 1598 "Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love."-Shakespeare "Hamlet" 1600 "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more; it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."-Shakespeare "Macbeth" 1605 "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."-Shakespeare "Sonnet 94" 1609 "I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry."-John Donne "The Triple Fool" 1572-1631 "By all means use sometimes to be alone."-George Herbert "The Temple" 1633 "Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."-Herbert "Jacula Prudentum" 1651 "Give me more love or more disdain;The torrid or the frozen zone:Bring equal ease unto my pain;The temperate affords me none."-Thomas Carew "Poems: mediocraty in love rejected" 1640 "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."-Rene Descartes "Le Discours de la Methode" 1637 "We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."-Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld "Reflections, maxim 19" 1613-1680 "If we had no faults of our own, we would nat take so much peasure in noticing those of others."-ibid, maxim 31 "There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where ot does not."-ibid, maxim 70 "Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths."-Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) "Le Misanthrope" 1666 "Things are always at their best in their beginning."-Blaise Pascal "Lettres Provinciales" 1656-1657 "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."-Pascal "Pensees" 1670 "Happy the man, and happy he alone,He who can call today his own;He who, secure within can say,Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."-John Dryden "Imitation of Horace, book III" 1685 Back
"Know thyself"-The Oracle at Delphi.
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."-Confucius.
"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."-Confucius.
"FAITH: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."-Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary."
"Much learning does not teach understanding."-Heraclitus c.540-c.480 BC.
"A man's character is his fate."-Heraclitus..ibid
"The good befriend themselves."-Sophocles:"Oedipus at Colonus" 406 BC.
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."Euripides:"The Bacchae." c. 407 BC.
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions."-Confucius.
"The superior man does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow."-Confucius.
"SELFISH: devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others."-Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary"
"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."-Euripides: "Aeolus, fragment 32" c.485-c. 406 BC.
"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."-Euripides: "Phoenix, fragment 413" c.....ibid.
"Force has no place where there is need of skill."-Herodotus: "The Histories of Herodotus, book III." c.485-c.425 BC.
"The superior man is satisfied and composed, the mean man is always full of distress."-Confucius.
"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others."-Confucius.
"ABSURDITY: a statement of belief manifestly inconsistant with one's own opinion."-Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary."
"BIGOT: one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."-Ambrose Bierce: ibid.
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."-Socrates: "Diogenes Laertus, lives of eminent philosophers, book II." 468-339 BC.
"Many admire, few know."-Hippocrates: "Regimen, book I" c.460- 400 BC.
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."-Plato: "Dialogues" c.428- 348 BC.
"No human thing is of serious importance."-Plato: "The Republic" c. ibid
"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it."-Confucius.
"The superior man is distressed by his want of ability."-Confucius.
"MYTHOLOGY: the body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later."-Ambrose Bierce:"The Devil's Dictionary"
"PRESENT: that part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."-Ambrose Bierce: ibid
"Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead."-Aristotle:"Diogenes Laertes, lives of eminent philosophers, book V" 384-322 BC.
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."-Aristotle: ibid
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."-Demosthenes:"Third Olynthiac" c.384-322 BC
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."-Mencius:"Works, book IV" 372-289 BC
"I hate and I love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment."-Gaius Valerius Catullus:"Carmina, LXXXV" 87- c.54 BC.
"Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious."-Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro):"Ecologues, IX" 70-19 BC
"What is left when honor is lost?"-Publius Syrus:"Maxim 265" first century BC
"Never promise more than you can perform."-Publius Syrus:"Maxim 528" ibid
"Nothing is stronger than habit."-Ovid (Publius Ovidius Nasa):"Ars Amatoria, II" 43 BC- c. 18 AD
"The good or ill of man lies within his own will."-Epictetus:"Discourses, book I" c.50-120
"No one becomes depraved in a moment."-Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)"Satires, II" c.50- c.130
"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."-Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)"Letters, book II" c.61- c.122
"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing."-ibid "Letters, book VII"
"Very little is needed to make a happy life."-Marcus Aurelius Antonius "Meditations, VII" 121-180
"The world wants to be deceived."-Sebastian Brant "The Ship of Fools" 1494
"This is the thing I was born to do."-Samuel Daniel "Musophilus" 1599
"Yield not thy neckTo fortune's yolk, but let thy dauntless mindStill ride in triumph over all mischance."-William Shakespeare "King Henry the Sixth, part III" 1591
"Hasty marriage seldom proveth well."-Shakespeare ibid
"The man that hath no music in himself,Nor is not moved with concord of sweetsounds,Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;The motions of his spirit are dull as night,And his affections dark as Erebus:Let no such man be trusted."-Shakespeare "The Merchant of Venice" 1596
"Greatness knows itself."-Shakespeare "Henry IV, part I" 1597
"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."-Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing" 1598
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."-Shakespeare "As You Like It" 1598
"Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love."-Shakespeare "Hamlet" 1600
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more; it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."-Shakespeare "Macbeth" 1605
"Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."-Shakespeare "Sonnet 94" 1609
"I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry."-John Donne "The Triple Fool" 1572-1631
"By all means use sometimes to be alone."-George Herbert "The Temple" 1633
"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge."-Herbert "Jacula Prudentum" 1651
"Give me more love or more disdain;The torrid or the frozen zone:Bring equal ease unto my pain;The temperate affords me none."-Thomas Carew "Poems: mediocraty in love rejected" 1640
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."-Rene Descartes "Le Discours de la Methode" 1637
"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."-Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld "Reflections, maxim 19" 1613-1680
"If we had no faults of our own, we would nat take so much peasure in noticing those of others."-ibid, maxim 31
"There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where ot does not."-ibid, maxim 70
"Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths."-Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) "Le Misanthrope" 1666
"Things are always at their best in their beginning."-Blaise Pascal "Lettres Provinciales" 1656-1657
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."-Pascal "Pensees" 1670
"Happy the man, and happy he alone,He who can call today his own;He who, secure within can say,Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."-John Dryden "Imitation of Horace, book III" 1685
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