106 quotes
None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007)
Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894)
Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007)
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Order thyself so, that thy Soul may always be in good estate; whatsoever become of thy body.
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.
Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth and power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
The Golden Ratio (2002)
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.
Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
Step not beyond the beam of the balance.
Work at these things, practice them... they are what will put you on the path of divine virtue — yes, by the one who entrusted our soul with the tetraktys, source of ever-flowing nature.
True and perfect Friendship is, to make one heart and mind of many hearts and bodies.
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse.
The King that followeth Truth, and ruleth according to Justice, shall reign quietly: but he that doth the contrary, seeketh another to reign for him.
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
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.
Holding fast to these things, you will know the worlds of gods and mortals which permeates and governs everything. And you will know, as is right, nature similar in all respects, so that you will neither entertain unreasonable hopes nor be neglectful of anything.
It is not proper either to have a blunt sword or to use freedom of speech ineffectually.
Neither is the sun to be taken from the world, nor freedom of speech from erudition.
the translation of Thomas Taylor (1818)