wisdom Quotes

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.