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At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Oct 1, 2025
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.
To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.
Be as you wish to seem.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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.
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In this engaging and provocative book, Eldon Taylor provides his readers with specific ways in which their beliefs can lead to success or failure in their life undertakings. Each chapter provides nuggets of wisdom as well as road maps for guiding them toward greater self-understanding, balance, responsibility, and compassion.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Man is the measure of all things.
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.