Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. |
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. |
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. |
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. |
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. |
Reason is immortal, all else mortal. |
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will |
Silence is better than unmeaning words. |
Silence is better than unmeaning words. |
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers (lovers of wisdom), and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. |
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. |
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. |
The oldest, shortest words - "yes' and "no" - are those which require the most thought. |
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. |
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. |