The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity
To say that a work of art is good
No matter how much you think you love somebody
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Our Generation has had no Great war
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Since change is constant
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state
Sometimes you do something
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
That saying
The answer is there is no answer.
The lower you fall
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever
We are not special. We are not crap or trash
What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone
You are not a beautiful
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life
Where there is reverence there is fear
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
When you are offended at any man's fault
Whenever you are angry
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
I know that I am intelligent
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
If a man is proud of his wealth
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion
It is not living that matters
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not
Once made equal to man
One who is injured ought not to return the injury
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general
The end of life is to be like God
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
To know
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty
When there is an income tax
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Your silence gives consent.
There's a victory
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
They do certainly give very strange
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
To go to the world below
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
The gods' service is tolerable
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils
To suffer the penalty of too much haste
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods
Twice and thrice over
The good is the beautiful.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
The learning and knowledge that we have
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
