Art of Wisdom

“You look at other people's pimples when you're covered in scars.”

“They lose the day by waiting for the night, and the night by fearing the light.”

“Cities are built in an age and destroyed in an hour.”

“It is best to live quietly on the sidelines, to speak little to others and much to oneself.”

“What is necessary is for you to talk to yourself. You get used to telling and hearing the truth.”

“Don't postpone anything, you never know when luck will come to you.”

“There are many people on earth who are not worthy of the light of day. But the sun rises again every day.”

“It is the justice of the crowd to bark at distinguished people as small dogs do at strangers.”

“Isn't that what you're looking for, that thing you've been putting off?”

“When there is too much pain, nothing is heard anymore.”

“Let us stop following the herd like animals and govern ourselves by reason rather than by example!”

“No matter how rich the soil is, it will not yield a crop unless it is cultivated. So it is with heads; heads that are not cultivated do not produce ideas.”

“No one can get the real taste of life except those who are ready and willing to give up.”

“Some people are hidden in such secret, nooks and crannies that they think everything that is bright is cloudy.”

“A good person evaluates his experiences soberly and knows how to learn from them.”

“Carry on as you have begun, hurry as much as you can, so that you can make use of your soul, which has been formed and organized, for a longer time.”

“It is often we ourselves who make people ungrateful; we offer them a gift they cannot return and act as if it would be best for us.”

“It is a noble character not to wait for suffering to stop, but to put an end to it, and not to wait for the moment when it will leave, to break with it.”

“You have sunk to the bottom; now, this is the place to rise!”

“There is no subject on which I am more determined than not to mold the actions of my life according to your convictions.”

“To be happy, you have to eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.”

“He who can control his mind has control of everything.”

“In everything you fear you act like mortals, in everything you desire you act like immortals.”

“It's never too late to turn from our wrongs.”

“Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift, often a blessing.”

“There is no one who does not die on the day he should die.”

“He who does not plant the tree of knowledge in his youth will not find a shade of comfort in his old age.”

“Great minds may have to travel rough roads to reach their goals.”

“It is not what you endure, but how you endure it.”

“What reaches perfection is always close to extinction. The brighter the fire, the sooner it goes out.”

“He who suffers before he should, suffers more than he should.”

“It is better to be despised for sincerity than to be tormented by constant hypocrisy.”

“A safe way is for the weak and cowardly, virtue comes from the high.”

“Everything depends on one's thoughts. The more unhappy a man convinces himself he is, the more unhappy he is.”

“Everyone wants to live happily, but their minds are blind to see what makes life happy.”

“There are many reasons that make loneliness unbearable, but loneliness reminds us who our true friends are.”

“Death is inevitable. But life is as inevitable as death, if we are born at all.”

“Do you have spare time to search for the evils of others, to pass judgment on anyone?”

“Destiny guides the willing and drags the unwilling.”

“The man who knows why he should be content, who does not leave his happiness in the hands of others, has reached the height of wisdom.”

“No man knows his own strength or worth until he is forced to prove it.”

“Everything appears to us the way we look at it.”

“Don't let the past overshadow the present.”

“If you remind yourself of something often, you want to take it back.”

“What is the limit of wealth, you ask? First to have what is necessary, then to have enough.”

“What you can realize first of all, my Lucilius, is this: Learn to be content!”

“On the contrary, the great triumph is to see that everything is in our heads and to remove our imperfections.”

“Habits are the cornerstones of our character.”

“There is something more painful than losing life: losing the meaning of life.”

“Regret for what you do passes with time, but what you don't do in case you regret it lasts a lifetime.”

“Light pain can speak, but deep pain is mute.”

“The road to the summit of greatness is bumpy.”

“To live a long life is a matter of fate, to live a full life is a matter of your soul.”

“Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, if we surrender and turn our backs, every calamity of fortune will strike us harder.”

“There is nothing that does not bear the traces of its birthplace.”

“I will never be ashamed to quote a good quote from a bad writer.”

“The choice of people is especially important: are those to whom we devote part of our lives worthy of respect?”

“The doctor does not resent the moodiness of an unconscious patient. Nor does he get angry when a fever strikes him. This is how a wise man should treat people.”

“The work of one who fights the enemy within is more difficult than fighting an enemy of flesh and blood in battle.”

“He who rises without a foundation is doomed.”

“Everything is foreign to us. The only thing that is ours is the time we have.”

“Everyone who calls you to himself is pushing you away.”

“The greatest obstacle to life is the expectation of tomorrow that consumes today.”

“The things you run away from are with you. Heal yourself, throw off your burdens!”

“True good comes from a clear conscience, lofty intentions and a calm life. How can those who jump from one intention to another be masters of their own lives?”

“Pleasure is at the edge of the abyss, cross the line and it becomes pain.”

“The branches are useless without the root.”

“Many things collapse to be replaced by something better.”

“The wise meet, heal and stop the unbearable with virtue. Anything other than death, loss and sickness, he ignores, laughs at and passes by.”

“Knowing when to speak and when to be silent is a great virtue.”

“You can no longer stay in the darkness, wherever you run, many glimmers of the old light will not leave you.”

“If you trust the expression on the faces of the people you meet, you will be deceived. They have the appearance of men, and the soul of a wild beast.”

“Invincible is not the one who never takes a blow, but the one who is not wounded by it.”

“Even happiness becomes torment if it goes beyond its limits.”

“If a man doesn't know which harbor to sail to, no wind can help him.”

“One needs a wise attitude. He will not be overjoyed in good times or miserable in bad times. A wise stance to accept with courage what this mercurial cycle brings.”

“There is a great struggle in the arena of imperfection. The desire to commit crimes is increasing day by day, and the veins of shame are cracking day by day.”

“Mingling with people is costly.”

“Get close to people who can make you better, and take in people who can make you better.”

“Small sins are punished, big sins are paraded in triumphal processions.”

“He who watches another finds nothing, and is not looking for anything.”

“No one knows how great his virtue is until he is tested. No one knows the hardness of a rock better than those who strike it.”

“All great things happen by slow and invisible progress.”

“Challenging work is for the most qualified people.”

“The fruit of good deeds ripens by continuing to seek the good after meeting the bad.”

“If you are a random friend, your surroundings are random. One must sometimes lose in order to realize one's worth."

“The most ungrateful of people is the one who forgets a benefit.”

“The gladiator considers it a shame to fight someone who is not in his power, knowing that a victory won without danger is a victory won without honor.”

“All the chaos in the world is caused by human beings alone.”

“You have to conquer pain rather than try to cheat it.”

“Whatever you want to know inside, leave it to time. Everything looks blurry in the current.”

“True wisdom comes when we realize how little we know about life, ourselves and the world around us.”