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  • Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Fall Quotes
  • In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot!
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Wise Quotes , Islands Quotes
  • Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wise Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Wise Quotes , Hate Quotes
  • Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Education Quotes , Wise Quotes
  • We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Wise Quotes
  • Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Horace Quotes , Wise Quotes , Strong Quotes