Some quotes to base your life on
Aristotle
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."
"Hope is a waking dream."
"In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities."
Plato
*"No human thing is of serious importance."
"There is no such thing as a lover's oath."
Confucius
**"Study the past if you would define the future."
"The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow."
"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
**"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
"[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions."
Socrates
"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
"Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of."
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."
"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
"And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
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