Philosophical Sayings

The one who is wise, established in virtue, knows the meaning of words, has a tranquil mind, and has abandoned craving, is truly called a sage.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.

By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.

Even as a tree, though cut down, sprouts again if its roots are undamaged and strong, so also, if the roots of craving are not destroyed, suffering ever springs up again and again.

The wise ones who are intent on meditation, who delight in the peace of renunciation, such mindful ones, perfect in wisdom, collect like bees the nectar of flowers.

The body, monks, is not self. If the body were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease. It would be possible (to say) with regard to the body, 'Let my body be thus. Let my body not be thus.' But precisely because the body is not self, t…

Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Fortune sides with him who dares. / Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. / Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

Fear reveals baseborn souls!

A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.

To each man shall his own free actions bring both his suffering and his good fortune.

Wherever Fate may lead us, whether on Or backward, let us follow. Whatsoever Occurs, all fortune must be overcome By endurance.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Trust not too much to appearances.