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The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.
Sep 10, 2025
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'
As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.
The wise man once said invest young
A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Greed is permanent slavery
An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.
The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.