What is called a topic that will change your life. Under pleasant music, you will read quotes taken from the speech of the Dalai Lama on the eve of 2009.
“In reality, everything is completely different than in reality.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“It takes two to tell the truth - a storyteller and a listener.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Human disputes are endless not because it is impossible to find the truth - but because those arguing are not looking for truth, but for self-affirmation.”
“God does not send us despair to kill us - He sends it to us to awaken new life in us!”
Hermann Hesse
He who has many vices also has many rulers.
F. Petrarch
“No matter how many mistakes you make and no matter how slowly you move forward, you will still do it faster than those who don’t even try.”
“People were created to be loved, and things were created to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the other way around.”
Dalai Lama
“Action is everything; reputation is nothing."
“Theory, my friend, is dry, but the tree of life is ever green.”
Johann Wolfang von Goethe
“To see the World in a Grain of Sand,
Heaven is in the Wild Flower,
Squeeze Infinity in the palm of your hand
and Eternity is in an hour.”“Truth is rarely pure - and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde
You should not confuse loneliness and solitude. Loneliness for me is a psychological, mental concept, while solitude is physical. The first dulls, the second calms.
Carlos Castaneda
“There are no stupid people in the world. There are those who see the truth and those who use it..."
Anita Joan Smith
“Giving - do it easily, losing - do it easily, saying goodbye - do it easily
When giving, losing, saying goodbye, don’t be sad about the future, but give thanks to the past.”Ancient Chinese wisdom
F. Bacon
“Be a friend of truth to the point of martyrdom, but do not be its defender to the point of intolerance.”
Pythagoras
“Avoid people who consider impudence to be courage, and soft-heartedness to be weak-willed. And avoid those who believe that chatter is wisdom and silence is ignorance. Don’t you see, lions are silent, but they are feared, and dogs bark loudly, but they are driven away with stones.”
Imam al-Shafi"
“The truth, which has become the property of the crowd, very soon becomes distorted beyond recognition.”
Buffon Georges Louis Leclerc“The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. A lie is always complex, elaborate and verbose.”
L. Tolstoy
“A helpful fool is more dangerous than an enemy.”
I.A. KrylovOne woman had a dream that the Lord stood behind the store counter instead of a salesman.
- God! It's you!
“Yes, I am,” God answered.
– What can I buy from you?
“That’s it,” was the answer.
– Then, I would like to buy health, happiness, love, success, and a lot of money!
God smiled and went to get the ordered goods. Soon He returned with a small cardboard box.
- This is all?! - the woman exclaimed.
“Yes,” God answered calmly, “didn’t you know that I only sell seeds?”“During his lifetime, Chen Zhen often said that he was not like others. But then he died, and his grave is no different from the others. »
Ba Jin
“All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
L. Tolstoy
“The great science of living happily is to live only in the present.” “Take care of the tears of your children so that they may shed them at your grave.” “Do great things without promising great things.” "Friendship is equality."
“When you rise, your friends will know who you are. When you fall, you find out who your friends are."
“Life is like games: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest come to watch.”
Pythagoras
“Happy is the one who is prevented from cheating by love, not morality.”
“Think, look for a reason, find a way when faith would make you different - not in external differences, putting on a badge, which is petty absurdity”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Any person, without explaining anything to him, can be put in prison for ten years, and somewhere in the depths of his soul he will know why.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“A domestic quarrel is a family dispute in which the wife tells her husband that she has nothing more to say, and he is obliged to listen to it for an hour.”
Evan Ezar
“Make sure you get what you want, otherwise you'll have to love what you get.”
George Bernard Shaw
“If you are in your right mind, do not dream that the one who fell into your arms so quickly will be faithful to you.”
Ovid
“Friendship is such a sacred, sweet, lasting and permanent feeling that it can be preserved for life, if only you do not try to borrow money.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If a woman hates you, it means she loved you, loves you or will love you.”
German proverb
“There is no woman who could say “goodbye” in less than thirty words.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There is only one path to happiness - to stop worrying about things that are beyond our control.”
Epictetus
“Self-indulgence is accompanied by predation on others.”
Gennady Malkin
“From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely long future; from the point of view of old age - a very short past.”
A. Schopenhauer
“Heroes are not born. Heroes die..."
“Do not judge a man by his friends; do not forget that Judas had impeccable friends.”
“You don’t need to peer into the abyss very often, otherwise the abyss will begin to peer into you.”
“I never resist temptation, for I know from experience that what is harmful to me does not tempt me.”
George Bernard Shaw
Who does not know the value of silence,
He doesn't know the value of words.
Can't be heard in noisy companies
Words that are full of meaningE. Pomytkin
“Life is a mystery that you must be able to accept and not torment yourself with the constant question: “What is the meaning of my life?” It’s better to fill your life with meaning and things that are important to you.”
P. Coelho
“He who is strong in body can endure both heat and cold. Likewise, someone who is mentally healthy is able to endure anger, grief, joy, and other feelings.”
Epictetus
"Don't speak unless it changes the silence for the better ».
Chinese folk wisdom
“True words are not graceful. Fine words are not trustworthy. Kind is not eloquent. An eloquent person cannot be kind. He who knows does not prove, he who proves does not know. The sage does not accumulate anything. He does everything for people and gives everything to others. The Heavenly Dao benefits all beings and does not harm them. The Tao of the perfect sage is action without struggle.”
Zhang 81 from the Book of Path and Power.
In the struggle the shield and spear will be exhausted
Each of us will die in the struggle.
You went out to look - so look for yours! -
no one else will give up theirs. You wanted to say the right thing,
but I hurt other people with my words, -
you knew, but they didn't want to know
no one's borrowed ideas. No exit. But where is the entrance
you can just leave the light on
and if someone comes there -
he will know that there is no way out. Then without words, without your ideas,
without persuasion to go forward, -
a lot of very kind people
will follow you silently. They will go without asking -
are you enlightened or in darkness,
just everyone is ready to find
the most important thing on earth. ABOUT! How simple it is - not to suffer!
Silence and give wisdom to the path,
After all, the most important thing is to become a light!
And you can immediately see where to go.
The true calling of everyone consists in only one thing - to come to oneself, to find one’s own, not a loved one’s destiny, and to surrender to it internally, completely and unshakably.
Hermann Hesse
“And yet death remains forever and ever the only predetermined event for each of us.”
“What would we do if we built the world, brought into being a great being and saw that here something has failed, there is only half in order, and here both are out of place? Now they would intervene, tear it out, destroy it, right?
We would not notice the value contained even in the imperfect, the spark of true light in the failed, we would forget how important it is.”
"Only one step between me and death"
“What is the longest word? Eternity. The shortest now. It doesn't even last a second. Think that now this is the time during which we must prepare for eternity.”
“One should be extremely humble and have nothing to defend, not even one’s own personality. One's own personality must be protected, but not defended.
“If you ignore the enemy and yourself, then you are a complete fool and will definitely be defeated in every battle.
If you know yourself but don't know the enemy, for every battle you win you will lose the next.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you will win every battle.".Sun Tzu
“Failure is simply an opportunity to start again, but more wisely.”
Henry Ford
“If a problem can be solved, there is no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, there is no point in worrying about it.”
Dalai Lama
“Even if you are very talented and put in a lot of effort, some results just take time: you won’t get a baby in a month even if you get nine women pregnant.”
Warren Buffett
“Our big flaw is that we give up too quickly. The surest path to success is to always try again.”
Thomas Edison
“The most outstanding talents are ruined by idleness.”
Montaigne
“A smart person loves to learn, a fool loves to teach.”
Bulat Okudzhava
“The best that we are capable of manifests itself in us when we are backed against the wall, when we feel the sword raised above our heads! Personally, I wouldn’t want it any other way!”
Carlos Castaneda
“Do not be timid before the enemy: man’s fiercest enemy is himself.”
Kozma Prutkov
“Only he is worthy of life and freedom who goes to battle for them every day...”
I.V. Goethe
“Truth is not transmitted, truth is perceived.”
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. But they make the best of what they have.”
“If you are upset about something, then you are living in the past; if you are worried about something, you are living in the future; if you are experiencing bliss and lightness, you are living in the present.”
Where are you now?
“We don’t see everything as it is - we see everything as we are.”
“No matter what the rake teaches, the heart believes in miracles”
“Most people are only as happy as they decide to be.”
Lincoln
“Sometimes it’s good to be silent so that you can be heard. And disappear to be noticed"
Keep busy. This is the cheapest medicine on earth - and one of the most effective."
“Real men have a happy woman, others have a strong woman”
“If you managed to kick the ass of the person responsible for most of your troubles, you would not be able to sit for a week.”
“The downside of loneliness is that after a while you start to enjoy it, and you simply don’t let anyone into your life.”
“Courage is not in the strength of the hand or the art of wielding a sword, courage is in self-control.”
“Each of us has only one true calling - to find the path to ourselves.”
Hermann Hoesse
“There are no unattainable goals, there is a high coefficient of laziness, a lack of ingenuity and a stock of excuses.”
“You shouldn’t waste time on a person who doesn’t want to spend it on himself.”
Gabriel Marquez
“Where there are few words, they have weight”
Shakespeare
“There is a Sun in every person, just let it shine”
“Follow your desire and it will follow you. The universe will open doors for you where there used to be walls.”
Joseph Cambale
“The less a person needs, the closer he is to the gods”
Socrates
“Take care of those who love you: they usually come suddenly and leave quietly”
“Don’t lose the worthy... for the sake of the affordable”
“Life begins where your comfort zone ends”
Napoleon Hill
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.”
Confucius
“Any goal will be achieved by the one whose deeds, thoughts and words are united!”
“When we lose our sense of self-importance, we become invulnerable.”
“Everyone knows from childhood that such and such is impossible. But there is always an ignoramus who does not know this. He makes discoveries."
Einstein
“Life is not a property to be protected, but a gift to be shared with other people.”
William Faulkner
“Dreams are reality waiting in the wings”
“The temptation to give up is especially strong shortly before victory.”
“The greatest pleasure is to do what others think you cannot do.”
“There are no hopeless situations, unnecessary people, random meetings and wasted time.”
“Ancient Wisdom is learned not in order to dominate and command over someone, and not in order to be proud of other Clans. Ancient Wisdom has always been learned in order to understand one’s Life Path, and in order to pass it on to Descendants.”
“When you wake up in the morning, ask yourself: “What should I do?” In the evening, before falling asleep: “What have I done?”
Pythagoras
“If a problem can be solved, there is no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, there is no point in worrying about it.”
Dalai Lama
“Once in a lifetime, fortune knocks on every person’s door, but at that time a person often sits in the nearest pub and does not hear any knock.”
Mark Twain
“Our big flaw is that we give up too quickly. The surest path to success is to always try again.”
Thomas Edison
“The poor, unsuccessful, unhappy and unhealthy is the one who often uses the word “tomorrow.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Old people always advise young people to save money. This is bad advice. Don't save nickels. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar in my life until I was forty.”
Henry Ford
“Hard work is the accumulation of easy things you didn’t do when you should have done them.”
John Maxwell
"I used to say, 'I hope things change.' Then I realized that the only way for everything to change is for me to change.”
Jim Rohn
“Do today what others do not want, tomorrow you will live as others cannot.”
Methuselah lived 969 years. You, dear boys and girls, will see more in the next ten years than Methuselah saw in his entire life.
Mark Twain
If you hate, it means you've been defeated
Confucius
Life itself is a blank canvas, and it will become the way you paint it. You can paint suffering, or you can paint bliss. In this freedom is your greatness.
“Bliss is not something that can be achieved.
It already exists - you are born with it."“There are things that can only appear thanks to you,
and there are things that can only appear when you are not there.
6th century BC
Anaximenes
Knowledge increases ignorance.
Biant
Life must be measured as if you have both a lot and a little left to live.
I carry everything I have with me.
Chilon
Learn to be a good leader in your own home.
Do not preempt thought with your tongue.
Do not encroach on what is beyond your strength.
Xenophanes
A person who wants to find a sage must be wise himself.
Pythagoras
Don't chase happiness: it is always within you.
Life is like games: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest come to watch.
Do great things without promising great things.
Of two people of equal strength, the one who is right is stronger.
The beginning is half of everything.
Do not reason with children, women and people.
Try to be wise first, and learn when you have free time.
Only one deity can possess comprehensive wisdom, and man can only strive for it.
A statue is painted by his appearance, but a man by his deeds.
Joke, like salt, should be consumed in moderation.
Lao Tzu
True words are not graceful, graceful words are not true.
He who is dead but not forgotten is immortal.
Look at the matter as difficult, and in the end it will not be difficult.
By striving for little you gain, by striving for much you fall into error.
Buddha
Everything for everything, always.
For never in this world does hatred cease with hatred, but with the absence of hatred it ceases.
The jug fills from falling drops. A stupid person is filled with evil, even accumulating it little by little.
Confucius
Learning without reflection is useless, but reflection without learning is also dangerous.
It is enough that the words express the meaning.
Don't do to a person what you don't want to do to yourself.
Be hard on yourself and gentle on others. This way you will protect yourself from human hostility.
He who repeats the old and learns the new can be a leader.
A person has three paths to reason: the path of reflection is the most noble; the path of imitation is the easiest; the path of personal experience is the most difficult.
Visiting and listening to evil people is already the beginning of an evil deed.
The word by which you can live your whole life is indulgence.
Paying good for evil is absurd. How then to pay for good?
The madman complains that people don't know him; the sage complains that he does not know people.
Theognis
I bequeath: do not be zealous in anything.
Choose the middle in everything
You will see the same success as working hard.
It is difficult for a reasonable person to have a long conversation with fools.
But to remain silent all the time is beyond human strength.
Epicharmus
There is no one in the world without sin and without reproach.
No, you are strong not to speak, but you are powerless to remain silent.
Heraclitus
You cannot step into the same river twice.
Everything flows, everything changes.
Let us not guess at random about the greatest!
When all people's wishes come true, it is no better for them.
Much knowledge does not teach intelligence.
People's opinions are child's play.
If happiness consisted only in bodily pleasures, we would call the bulls happy who found peas to eat.
Melissa
Nothing comes from nothing.
There is no emptiness at all. For emptiness is nothing. So, that which is nothing cannot exist.
Sayings of thinkers of Ancient Greece
Anaxagoras
500–428 BC e.
Ancient Greek philosopher, the first professional teacher of philosophy. He was the first to reject the divine nature of the heavenly bodies and give a physical justification for solar eclipses.
Nothing can be fully known, nothing can be fully learned, nothing can be completely certain: feelings are limited, the mind is weak, life is short.
If the birds created a god for themselves, he would have wings; the god of horses would be four-legged.
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In life, situations often arise when a person does not know what to do correctly, then he begins to seek advice. Friends and relatives are vying with each other to suggest a solution, but their experience, unfortunately, is not always enough to give truly practical advice. Another thing is Chinese wisdom, proven over centuries. Chinese philosophical teachings spread and gained recognition throughout the world. We invite you to get acquainted with quotes and aphorisms of Chinese sages who teach how to live a decent life.
One of the most famous Chinese philosophers is Confucius, the founder of Confucianism. No less popular are Chinese thinkers such as Lao Tzu, Zhuang Tzu, Mo Tzu, Han Fei and others. They all thought about the meaning of life, called on people to be kinder, taught them to act and not wait for the right moment, because time does not stand still.
Quotes and aphorisms of Chinese sages
No one returns from travel the same as he was before.
Travel changes a person's inner world.
You can only pour from a jug into a bowl what was in it.
Do not demand fruit where you did not sow it.
There are many roads that lead to the top. But the landscape remains unchanged.
The goal is one, but there are different ways to achieve it.
Don't speak unless it changes the silence for the better.
It is better to remain silent than to speak without meaning.
Anyone who drinks water must remember those who dug the well.
You should always honor those to whom you owe your life and blessings.
When away from home, behave as if you are receiving honored guests. When using the services of people, behave as if you were performing a solemn ceremony. Don't do to others what you wouldn't want for yourself. Then there will be no discontent either in the state or in the family.
If everyone does this, then the world will change for the better.
A person does what he loves well.
When doing something you don't like, don't expect a good result.
A horse is recognized by riding, a person by communication.
You can’t judge a person by his appearance, but as soon as you start talking to him, everything about him immediately becomes clear.
Buy cheap - lose money.
You have to pay for quality.
Newborns cry the same everywhere. When they grow up, they have different habits. This is the result of upbringing.
What kind of person your child will grow up to be depends only on you.
Trouble comes when people, in their laziness, forget to take care of themselves.
Trouble happens so that people can spend time with each other.
For those who are not sailing anywhere, there is no tailwind!
Luck accompanies those who strive for something.
Don't be afraid that you don't know - be afraid that you don't learn.
Ignorance is not a problem if you have the desire to learn.
When people do not pay attention to the criticism and praise of the people and calmly put up with the loss of their sympathy, this is an unworthy way to govern the country.
A good ruler is one who listens to his people.
Instead of exalting the sky and reflecting on it, isn’t it better to ourselves, by multiplying things, to subjugate the sky? Instead of serving the sky and praising it, isn’t it better, overcoming the heavenly fate, to use the sky to our advantage?
Man already uses almost everything to his advantage.
Even if a person by nature has excellent qualities and wisdom, he must still receive a wise teacher and follow him, he must choose good people as friends and be friends with them.
With wise teachers and good friends you will become even wiser.
Proverbs and folk wisdom
Better to see once than hear a hundred times.
Visualization gives a better idea of the situation.
By reflecting on the past, you learn about the future.
What could not be done in the past can be done in the future.
Only a beautiful bird is put in a cage.
Man is accustomed to subjugating beauty to himself, without thinking that he is dooming it to bondage.
He who speaks ill of others is not good himself.
No one has the right to judge a person.
Money makes people strangers.
If you want to lose a friend, lend him money; if you want to distance yourself from your loved one, tell him that he needs to earn more.
In friendship, too, know the boundaries.
Friendship is good when it is in moderation.
The greatest treasure in the world is children.
A child is the meaning of life for his parents.
It is better to be the enemy of a good person than the friend of a bad one.
It's better to be friends with bad people.
Vouch for money, never for a person.
Sometimes it’s difficult even to be responsible for yourself, let alone for others.
Saying kind words does not mean being kind.
You can say whatever you want, but saying what you feel is rare.
Until you fall for the bait, you will not become an expert.
Let one go through mistakes and failures to knowledge and wisdom.
But nevertheless, we need to live not for yesterday or tomorrow, but for today.
If there is a desire in the heart, then you can drill through the stone.
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This collection of wise quotes, aphorisms and sayings is a continuation of the previously published post:.
Judging by the number of views, site visitors liked the wisdom of the ancients, and I decided to continue publishing. Maybe you’ll get a whole collection of wisdom, quotes and aphorisms from the times of Ancient Egypt to the present day.
In the meantime, a selection of quotes from the sages of Ancient Greece.
Quotes, aphorisms and sayings of the Greek sages
Out of love for children, some people should not have them.
The wise men speak, but matters are decided by the ignorant people from the People's Assembly.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
The Athenian reproached him, Anacharsis, for being a Scythian. Anarchsis replied: “If I am a disgrace, my homeland is a disgrace, and you are a disgrace to your homeland.”
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
Safe ships are beached ships.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
The market is a place deliberately appointed to deceive and rob each other.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
An angry person is like coal: if it doesn’t burn, it blackens you.
Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =
It is also likely that a lot of incredible things are happening.
Ancient Greece. Agathon =
Everyone who is touched by Eros becomes a poet.
Ancient Greece. Agathon =
Even the gods cannot change the past.
Ancient Greece. Agathon =
In the end, having abandoned everything, he [Anaxagoras] took up the speculation of nature, without worrying about any state affairs.
They asked him: “And you don’t care about your fatherland?”
He replied: “Not at all, I really care about the fatherland!” - and pointed to the sky.
Anaxagoras, after the death of his beloved son, did not fall into madness, as those around him expected. When asked the reason, he replied: "I always knew that I gave birth to a mortal."
Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras Klazomensky =
Someone lamented that he was dying in a foreign land; Anaxagoras told him: “The descent into Hades is the same from everywhere.”
Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras Klazomensky =
Nothing can be known, nothing can be learned, nothing can be ascertained: feelings are limited, the mind is weak, life is short.
Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras Klazomensky =
Characteristic of wisdom is the ability to find for everyone its own kind of wisdom, and ignorance is characterized by addressing different people with monotonous speech.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Artist Albert Joseph Moore Lovers often deceive and promise the impossible.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
The beginning of education is the study of words.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Do not neglect your enemies: they are the first to notice your mistakes.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
It is difficult to endure an educated and intelligent person, since unreason is an easy and unburdensome thing, but reason is adamant, unshakable, its weight is insurmountable.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Virtue is the same for both men and women.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Pleasure is good, but [only] when it does not cause remorse.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
The lions took the floor when, having gathered for a council, the hares demanded equality for everyone.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
A holiday is an occasion for gluttony.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
One should strive for pleasures that come after work, and not before work.
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Politics should be treated like fire: do not come too close so as not to get burned, and do not move too far away so as not to freeze.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Don’t notice the old man’s mistake: it is useless to replant an old tree.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Ignorant people are like those who are awake and in a dream state.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
When asked which woman is better to take as a wife, he [Antisthenes] replied: “The beautiful one will be a common property, the ugly one will be your punishment.”
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
When asked what is most blissful for a person, he [Antisthenes] said: “To die happy.”
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
When asked what philosophy gave him, he [Antisthenes] replied: “The ability to talk with oneself.”
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Artist Hans Zatzka Someone said that war destroys the poor; Antisthenes remarked: “On the contrary, she gives birth to them in abundance.”
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Once, when Antisthenes exclaimed: “Oh, who will save me from suffering!”, Diogenes showed him a dagger and said: “That’s who” - “I said: from suffering, not from life!” - Antisthenes objected.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
States perish when they cease to distinguish the bad from the good.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
It is better to fight among a few good people against many bad ones, than among many bad people against a few good ones.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
Restraint is more necessary for those who hear bad things about themselves than for those at whom stones are thrown.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
It is better to fall to vultures than to fall to flatterers. Those devour the dead, and these devour the living.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
You need to meet those women who themselves will be grateful for it.
Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =
He, Apelles (painter and court artist of Alexander the Great), exhibited his completed works in an open gazebo and, hiding behind the painting, listened to the comments of those passing by, since he considered the people a more attentive judge than himself. Once, they say, a spectator-shoemaker noted that on the inside of the boot there was one less loop than it should be. The next day, proud that the omission he pointed out had been corrected, the shoemaker began to elaborate on the image of the foot. Then the angry artist came out of hiding and exclaimed: “Shoemaker, judge no higher than the boot.”
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
I am a stranger everywhere.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
In no case do I put myself among those who want to rule. It’s a difficult task to get what you need for yourself; but only a complete madman can, not being content with this, impose on himself a new burden - to deliver to all citizens what they need.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Someone brought his son to study with him, Aristippus asked for five hundred drachmas. The father said: “For this money I can buy a slave!”
“Buy,” said Aristippus, “and you will have two whole slaves.”
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Artist John William Godward He [Aristippus] asked the man who decried the luxury of his table: “Would you refuse to buy all this for three obols?” “Of course not,” he replied. “So, it’s just that money is more valuable to you than pleasure to me.”
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Indeed, generosity will never ruin Dionysius [the ruler of Syracuse]: to us, who ask a lot, he gives little, but to Plato, who takes nothing, he gives a lot.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
When teaching brought him [Aristippus] a lot of money, Socrates asked him: “Why do you need so much?” And he replied: “For the same thing for which you have so little.”
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Just as those who eat a lot are not healthier than those who eat the bare necessities, so true scholars are not those who read a lot, but those who read useful things.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
If luxury were bad, it would not be at the feasts of the gods.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
It is better to be a beggar than an ignoramus: if the first is deprived of money, then the second is deprived of human image.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Your right is to swear, my right is not to listen.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Does it really matter whether you occupy a house in which many have lived or one in which no one has lived? And does it really matter whether you sail on a ship where thousands of people have already sailed, or where no one has sailed yet? It makes the same difference whether to live with a woman whom many have already known, or with one whom no one has touched.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
The best lot is not to abstain from pleasures, but to rule over them without submitting to them.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
Children should be taught what will be useful to them when they grow up.
Ancient Greece. Apelles =
