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Please enjoy our collection of old sayings from Ancient Greece to Colonial America.
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
Hate is never conquered by hate, Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.
- Bhagavad Gita
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.
- Bhagavad Gita
Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.
- Bhagavad Gita
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Maimonides
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Follow your own star!
- Dante Alighieri
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Comparisons are odious.
- Old English Saying
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
-
John Adams
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