wisdom Quotes

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

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.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.