Ancient Wisdom

13/10/2024

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
-Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

12/10/2024

No one can save us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
-Buddha

12/10/2024

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-Euripides (480-406 BCE)

10/10/2024

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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10/10/2024

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
-Epicurus (341-270 BCE)

08/10/2024

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

07/10/2024

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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06/10/2024

If you expect great things of yourself, and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far way.
-Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

05/10/2024

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-Buddha

04/10/2024

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
-Epictetus (50-135 AD)

03/10/2024

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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02/10/2024

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Demosthenes (384-322 BCE)

01/10/2024

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

30/09/2024

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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29/09/2024

To be poor and free of resentment is difficult. To be rich and free of arrogance is easy.
-Confucius (551 BCE - 479 BCE)

28/09/2024

Holding on to anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
-Buddha

27/09/2024

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
-Ashoka the Great (c. 304 – 232 BCE) Emperor of India

26/09/2024

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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26/09/2024

25/09/2024

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-Aesop

20/12/2023

If an action involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.
-Xun Zi (313 BCE - 238 BCE) Chinese philosopher

24/09/2023

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) was adopted by the Emperor Hadrian's heir, who later became the Emperor Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius succeeded him in turn at the age of 40 after a career as a general and scholar.

20/08/2023

/ Johann Wolfgang Goethe /
"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement."
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Born:Johann Wolfgang Goethe, August 28, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
Died: March 22, 1832, Weimar, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Confederation
Occupation:Poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher, diplomat, civil servant
Alma mater: Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Literary movement:Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, Romanticism in science
Notable works:Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, "Prometheus", Zur Farbenlehre, Italienische Reise, West–östlicher Divan

20/08/2023

Permission to be imperfect...after all, you're human.

Recovery is a practice. Be gentle with yourself.