TIMELY WISDOM

Friday, December 2, 2011

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
- Epictetus

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
- Rousseau

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- Cicero

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
- David Hume

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Nietzsche

As a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
- Schopenhauer

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
- Plato

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
- Socrates

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- Schopenhauer




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