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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Inspirational , Life

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Thinking , Men

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Thinking , Mind

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Use , Happens

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , People , Two

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Life , Lost

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Philosophy , Friendship

There is nothing permanent except change.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Thinking , Inspirational

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Difficult , Challenges

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Shows , Love

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Knows , Seeking

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Way , Persons

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Thinking , Way

Man is the measure of all things.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Men , Inspirational

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Fear , Freedom

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Wisdom , Friendship

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Men , Wells

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Way , Science

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Life , Lying

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Made , Two

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Solitude , Loneliness

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Life , Philosophy

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , World , Lasts

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Reality , Motivational

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Men , Praying

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Ifs , Unexpected

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Inspire , Philosopher

Only the educated are free.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Life , Liberty

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Long , Doe

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Littles , Heaven

He is the richest who is content with the least.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Inspirational , Wealth

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Should , Years

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Firsts , Inspirational

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Firsts , Mistake

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Topic(s): Greek Philosopher , Form , Science

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