The Bhagavad Gita (dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE)
"When the mind
is led by
the roving senses,
then it steals
one's wisdom
like the wind
steals...
Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
"Most people seem to want to be loved rather than to love, the reason being their desire for honour."
From The Nicomachean Ethics...
Lao Tzu (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"It is because the sage never attempts to be great
that he succeeds in becoming great."
From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching...
The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"An uninstructed person
ages like an ox:
his bulk increases,
his insight does not."
The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 11), recorded in...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Differing wherein from the idolater,
But that he worships one, a hundred ye?"
Dante Alighieri’s Divine...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1314-1400)
"Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
Fortune has given us this adversity,
Some wicked planetary dispensation,
Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
Has...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Ye were not form'd to live the life of brutes,
But virtue to pursue and knowledge high.'"
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto XXVI), translated...
Friedrich Schleiermacher (c. 1768-1834)
"This infinite chaos, where of course every point represents a world, is as such actually the most suitable and highest symbol...
Sir Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"We desire to see the return of a liberal age where Parliaments will guard freedom, where science will open the...
Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645)
"Strategy is the craft of the warrior. Commanders must enact the craft, and troopers should know this Way. There is no...
Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)
"If what most men admire
they would despise,
It would look as if mankind
were growing wise."
From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications,...
The Bhagavad Gita (dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE)
"When the mind
is led by
the roving senses,
then it steals
one's wisdom
like the wind
steals...
Lao Tzu (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"It is because the sage never attempts to be great
that he succeeds in becoming great."
From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Differing wherein from the idolater,
But that he worships one, a hundred ye?"
Dante Alighieri’s Divine...
The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"An uninstructed person
ages like an ox:
his bulk increases,
his insight does not."
The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 11), recorded in...
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"He who thinks of his own pleasures and shrinks from fighting is very likely, because of his irresolution, to lose those...
Hromund the Lame (Icelandic settler said to have lived around the 10th or 11th century)
"I'm not doomed to die
today or yesterday
I'm getting ready
to go...
The Bhagavad Gita (dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE)
"When the mind
is led by
the roving senses,
then it steals
one's wisdom
like the wind
steals...
Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
"Most people seem to want to be loved rather than to love, the reason being their desire for honour."
From The Nicomachean Ethics...
Lao Tzu (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"It is because the sage never attempts to be great
that he succeeds in becoming great."
From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Differing wherein from the idolater,
But that he worships one, a hundred ye?"
Dante Alighieri’s Divine...
The Bhagavad Gita (dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE)
"When the mind
is led by
the roving senses,
then it steals
one's wisdom
like the wind
steals...
Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
"Most people seem to want to be loved rather than to love, the reason being their desire for honour."
From The Nicomachean Ethics...
Lao Tzu (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"It is because the sage never attempts to be great
that he succeeds in becoming great."
From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Differing wherein from the idolater,
But that he worships one, a hundred ye?"
Dante Alighieri’s Divine...
The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"An uninstructed person
ages like an ox:
his bulk increases,
his insight does not."
The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 11), recorded in...
