Famous quotes by Philosophers

"Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul"

"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones"

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities"

"All diseases run into one, old age"

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit"

"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities"

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will"

"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress"

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness"

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger"

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory"

"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance"

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age"

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting"

"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face"

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live"

"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence"

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains"

"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged"

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"

"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds"

"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly"

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion"

"Men should strive to think much and know little"

"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all"

"It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new"