Love & Life Sayings

35 sayings found from the Ancient era from 35 authors

The beloved of the gods speaks thus: This Dhamma edict was written twenty-six years after my coronation.

— Ashoka the Great c. 256 BCE
Love & Relationships

Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated.

— Epicurus c. 300 BCE
Life & Death

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

— Marcus Aurelius c. 161-180 AD
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

— Seneca c. 65 AD
Nature & World

If you want to live a life free from trouble, you must train your mind to be indifferent to external things.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD
Nature & World

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

— Sun Tzu c. 5th century BC
Life & Death

Man is the most intelligent of animals – and the most foolish.

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
Nature & World

The strong bull, beloved of Maat, stable of heart, whose will is effective in Thebes and Heliopolis.

— Ramesses II c. 1279–1213 BCE
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If a man's wife is caught lying with another man, they shall bind them and throw them into the water.

— Hammurabi c. 1754 BCE
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles 5th century BCE
Life & Death

The torch of doubt is lit at the moment of our birth and is not extinguished until the moment of our death.

— Zhuangzi c. 4th century BCE
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All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others.

— Mencius c. 4th-3rd century BCE
Life & Death

The nature of man is evil; his goodness is acquired.

— Xunzi c. 3rd century BCE
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Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

— Virgil 37–30 BCE
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Love is a kind of warfare.

— Ovid 2 CE
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