Quotes from Ancient Times
Vinet ~ Xenocrates Quotations
Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak.
Memorable Quotes
When you doubt, abstain.
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
Happiness is a good flow of life.
The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
No day is without its curse.
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If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
God will accept repentance for all sins except one: giving another man a bad name.