名言集 箴言录 四

• [[Seneca]][[marker/.quote]][[journal/quotes]][[list/quotaions|格言|maxims]]
  • If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
  • If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.
  • If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor, if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.
  • Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
  • The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
  • The life we receive is not short but we make it so, we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
  • If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable. [[journal/quotes]]
  • To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
  • He who is brave is free.
  • While we wait for life, life passes.
  • Whatever can happen at any time can happen today. [[journal/quotes]]
  • Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
  • We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
  • Respect the past, be open to the future.

• [[Pythagoras|毕达哥拉斯]][[marker/.quote]][[journal/quotes]][[list/quotaions|格言|maxims]]
  • In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
  • Don’t judge your greatness by your shadow at sunset.
  • A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. [[subject/教育|education]]
  • Be equally indifferent to blame and praise.
  • Whatever they think of you, do what you think is fair.
  • Declining from the public ways, walking in unfrequented paths.
  • It is difficult to walk, at one and the same time, many paths of life.
  • Time is the soul of this world.
  • Even as Truth, does Error have its lovers.
  • Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten.

• [[Marcus Aurelius]][[marker/.quote]][[list/quotaions|格言|maxims]]
  • The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second it to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
  • When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think , to enjoy, to love.
  • We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
  • Death smiles at us all, all we can do is smile back.
  • A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
  • What we do now echoes in eternity.
  • It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
  • Death, a man should not fear, but he should fear never beginning to Live.
  • Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so does life.
  • Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
  • Our life is what our thoughts make it.
  • Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
  • The impediment to action advances action. What stand in the way becomes the way. [[journal/quotes]]
  • “No carelessness in my actions. No confusion in my words. No imprecision in my thoughts.
  • If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.

• [[Cicero]][[marker/.quote]][[list/quotaions|格言|maxims]]
  • I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. In times of war, the law falls silent.
  • Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
  • –Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
  • The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. [[subject/教育|education]]
  • I am never as busy as during my leisure hours.
  • Happiness should be asked from God, wisdom should be acquired by yourself.
  • Even those philosophers who wrote treatises against fame did not forget to put their name in the title of their book.
  • We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.
  • Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
  • To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
  • Not being greedy is already wealth, not being wasteful is income.
  • Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
  • A friend is a second self.
  • Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by Beauty. [[Plato|柏拉图]][[keyword/柏拉图式性爱]]
  • In the world there’s nothing better and more pleasant than friendship, to exclude friendship from life is the same as to deprive the world of sunlight.
  • Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
  • Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
  • Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial either.