Nature & World Sayings
25 sayings found from the Ancient era from 25 authors
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The wise man, O Mazda, is he who continually keeps in mind Thy precepts and strives to establish Thy Kingdom on earth.
Abstain from animals.
The physician treats, but nature heals.
The sage is sharp but not cutting, pointed but not piercing, straightforward but not unrestrained, brilliant but not dazzling.
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
Even as a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath.
You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
The diameter of the Earth is greater than the diameter of the Moon and the diameter of the Sun is greater than the diameter of the Earth.
The circumference of the Earth is 250,000 stadia.
I am the sun and the moon.
I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, legitimate king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters of the earth.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
If you want to live a life free from trouble, you must train your mind to be indifferent to external things.
Man is the most intelligent of animals – and the most foolish.
If a man has no way to control his desires, he is like a fish in a dry rut, waiting for the north wind to blow the water into it.
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.