Life and Existence

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

You ought not to attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the eyes, so neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul.

Hope,' he says, 'cherishes the soul of him who lives justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey; hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.

Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him

God is the cause only of good.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the fill the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas receives nothing from like.

Everyone thinks because it is solely responsible for the wisdom or folly of his life, that is to say of his destiny.

Everyone thinks because it is solely responsible for the wisdom or folly of his life, that is to say of his destiny.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Either never, or very seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and energetic ones.

Each person must tend to the business that accords with his nature.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Assuredly he will love that most whose interests he regards as identical with his own, and in whose prosperity or adversity he believes his own fortunes to be involved.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

All is flux, nothing stays still.