Quotes to inspire and reflect

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Silence is safer than speech.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

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

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.