“Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.”
Pythagoras · Golden Verses
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Philosophy Quotes
363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.”
Pythagoras · Golden Verses
“Be silent, or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
Pythagoras
“No man is free who cannot command himself.”
Pythagoras
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
Pythagoras
“Do not indulge in dreams of what you have not, but count the blessings actually present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Receive without pride, relinquish without struggle.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 2
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 4
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
