Best Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Think on this doctrine,–that reasoning beings were created for one another’s sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment’s notice retire into thyself. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Every man’s life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. — Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Best Marcus Aurelius Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
Best Ausonius Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ausonius
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself. — Ausonius
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don’t believe yourself. — Ausonius
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. — Ausonius
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak. — Ausonius
Truth is the mother of hatred. — Ausonius
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read. — Ausonius
Best Jane Austen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves. — Jane Austen
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong — Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. — Jane Austen
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. — Jane Austen
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. — Jane Austen
I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. — Jane Austen
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. — Jane Austen
Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. — Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. — Jane Austen
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. — Jane Austen
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. — Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. — Jane Austen
One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen
The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s. — Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. — Jane Austen
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere. — Jane Austen
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or…of something else. — Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. — Jane Austen
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. — Jane Austen
Best Paul Auster Quotes: The most famous quotes by Paul Auster
Our lives don’t really belong to us, you see — they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. — Paul Auster
Best Kenny Ausubel Quotes: The most famous quotes by Kenny Ausubel
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. — Kenny Ausubel
Best Harriet Du Autermont Quotes: The most famous quotes by Harriet Du Autermont
No vision and you perish No Ideal, and you’re lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high. — Harriet Du Autermont
Best James A. Autry Quotes: The most famous quotes by James A. Autry
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance. — James A. Autry
Best Sri da Avabhas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sri da Avabhas
Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we’ll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight. — Sri da Avabhas
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. — Sri da Avabhas
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. — Sri da Avabhas
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. — Sri da Avabhas
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. — Sri da Avabhas
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. — Sri da Avabhas
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love. — Sri da Avabhas
Best Berton Averre Quotes: The most famous quotes by Berton Averre
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. — Berton Averre
Best Tex Avery Quotes: The most famous quotes by Tex Avery
What’s up, Doc — Tex Avery
Best Saint Teresa of Avila Quotes: The most famous quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Saint Teresa of Avila
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Saint Teresa of Avila
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Saint Teresa of Avila
Best Bernard Avishai Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bernard Avishai
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. — Bernard Avishai
Best A. J. Ayer Quotes: The most famous quotes by A. J. Ayer
No moral system can rest solely on authority. — A. J. Ayer
Best Alfred Jules Ayer Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alfred Jules Ayer
The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge…Unless he can formulate this ‘knowledge’ in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself. — Alfred Jules Ayer
Best Marcel Ayme Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marcel Ayme
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice. — Marcel Ayme
Best Ben Azai Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ben Azai
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. — Ben Azai
Best Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes: The most famous quotes by Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. — Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream. — Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. — Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. — Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. … Their faith is their passport. — Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Best Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Man’s many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down. — Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Life Is A Challenge – Meet It Life Is A Song – Sing It Life Is A Dream – Realize It Life Is A Game – Play It Life Is Love – Enjoy It — Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Best Thomas Babington Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thomas Babington
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. — Thomas Babington
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. — Thomas Babington
Best Eve Babitz Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eve Babitz
By the time I’d grown up, I naturally supposed that I’d be grown up. — Eve Babitz
Best Roger Babson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Roger Babson
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
Best Lauren Bacall Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lauren Bacall
You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Best Richard Bach Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard Bach
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished if you’re alive, it isn’t. — Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. — Richard Bach
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. — Richard Bach
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Richard Bach
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. — Richard Bach
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers. — Richard Bach
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away. — Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. — Richard Bach
Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends. — Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Best Burt Bacharach Quotes: The most famous quotes by Burt Bacharach
A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t. — Burt Bacharach
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
Best Gaston Bachelard Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gaston Bachelard
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
Best June Masters Bacher Quotes: The most famous quotes by June Masters Bacher
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. — June Masters Bacher
Best James Gilmore Backus Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Gilmore Backus
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. — James Gilmore Backus
Best Francis Bacon Quotes: The most famous quotes by Francis Bacon
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. — Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power. — Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. — Francis Bacon
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty. — Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. — Francis Bacon
The world’s a bubble and the life of man Less than a span. — Francis Bacon
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. — Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. — Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. — Francis Bacon
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Francis Bacon
Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. — Francis Bacon
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. — Francis Bacon
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. — Francis Bacon
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. — Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. — Francis Bacon
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. — Francis Bacon
We cannot command nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. — Francis Bacon
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self. — Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. — Francis Bacon
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. — Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. — Francis Bacon
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. — Francis Bacon
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man’s minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it — for them everything must be sought in things themselves. — Francis Bacon
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks. — Francis Bacon
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. — Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. — Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is. — Francis Bacon
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. — Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise. — Francis Bacon
Nothing is to be feared but fear. — Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men…the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. — Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. — Francis Bacon
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that. — Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study. — Francis Bacon
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. — Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. — Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. — Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. — Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience. — Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. — Francis Bacon
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to by my province. — Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. — Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. — Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. — Francis Bacon
In charity there is no excess. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
Best Michael R. Baer Quotes: The most famous quotes by Michael R. Baer
Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning. — Michael R. Baer
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