wisdom Quotes

When you are offended at any mans fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.