Art of Wisdom

“Don't waste the value you gain by silence on idle talk.”

“Be kind, because everyone you meet is struggling with difficulties you don't realize.”

“I am the wisest man alive. Because I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“Love is a serious mental illness.”

“An empty vessel makes a louder noise. So those with the least intelligence are the biggest charlatans.”

“Never forgive someone who betrayed you once. because he will betray you again.”

“Where might makes right, don't expect justice. Where there are people who worship power, don't expect peace.”

“He who loves a beautiful soul remains faithful to it forever, for what he loves is immortal.”

“Everything feeds on its opposite; the like is of no use to the like.”

“Nothing happens by chance, everything is planned.”

“Wise people talk because they have something to say. Stupid people speak because they have something to say.”

“Those who are too wise to bother with politics are punished by being ruled by even more foolish people.”

“The soul of the harmonious is good and valiant. The discordant one is cowardly and rude!”

“An empty head is the devil's study.”

“Be what you are! But first be the teacher of your ego and the student of your conscience.”

“Emotions are shaped according to the understanding of the mind.”

“He who wants to raise himself as a good person seeks the beautiful, praises the beautiful, enjoys it and feeds on it.”

“A man always becomes a slave to what he cannot give up. Pleasures, women and bad habits. Man must first conquer himself.”

“But in learning the good and the beautiful, one must also learn the bad, which is another facet of the same knowledge.”

“Don't judge anyone by the stories others tell you.”

“Those who attach too much importance to small things are the ones who cannot do great things.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life begins when adults are afraid of the light.”

“In a democracy, parliaments are like stables; the people inside fight, but it is always the people outside who get kicked.”

“The life of man is more important than the life of the world; true knowledge is to know man, not the world.”

“The difficult thing is not to avoid death, but to avoid injustice, because evil runs much faster than death.”