wisdom Quotes

Education is the best provision for old age.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Nature does nothing in vain.