Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [541-560] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Nothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The best ideas are common property.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What is wisdom? Always desiring the same things, and always refusing the same things.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What," say you, "are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have leisure to reform other men?" No, I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.~ William Shakespeare To willful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.~ William Shakespeare There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.~ George Bernard Shaw When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.~ George Bernard Shaw Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley [A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.~ George Shultz Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.~ Socrates The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways: I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows.~ Socrates We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.~ Solon Wisdom outweighs any wealth.~ Sophocles Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print