Aristotle Quote

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

• Knowledge
• Power

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Marcel Proust

• Consciousness

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Aeschylus

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Emily Dickinson

• Man
• Life

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Aesop

• Friendship

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can’t grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it’s only a pity.

Carlos Castaneda

• Spiritual warrior

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

John Galsworthy

• Power

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

• God
• Faith

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Johnny Depp

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Lewis Carroll

• Laughter
• Learning
• Spirit
• Anger

Great things are won by great dangers.

Herodotus

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Marilyn Monroe

• Life
• Famous
• Actress
• Celebrity

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Leon Battista Alberti

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Friedrich Schiller

• Man

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Thales

• Self-discovery
• Life

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus

• Man

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

• Man