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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Seneca
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Euripides
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Plautus
Authority is never without hate.
Euripides
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Seneca
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.
Benjamin Franklin
Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
Aristotle
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Sophocles
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Livy
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
Eat to live, not live to eat.
Socrates
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Cicero
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Laozi
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
If people's hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Nikola Tesla
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Carl Jung
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
Oscar Wilde
A word to the wise is enough.
Plautus
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter Drucker
The roots of education ... are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.
Confucius
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Cicero
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
Seneca
Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.
Hippocrates
Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.
Pittacus of Mytilene
Truth is the daughter of Time.
Aulus Gellius
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
Voltaire
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius
A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Solomon
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Seneca
Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.
Denzel Washington
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
When things go bad, don't go with them.
Elvis Presley
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.
Antisthenes
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
Laozi
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
Ovid
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates
I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
An evil person is like a piece of coal: if it doesn't burn, it blackens you.
Anacharsis
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Confucius
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
Plutarch
If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.
Epictetus
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar
Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
Plato
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
John Dryden
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne
Men trust their eyes less than their ears.
Herodotus
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Laozi
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer up somebody else.
Mark Twain
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius
