Category: Quotes
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Charles Mackay
“Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Aristotle
It is more difficult to fight the temptation of pleasure than the furiousness, but art and virtue are always born from difficulties.
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Stoic wisdom
The one who follows the destiny, she leads, and the one who rests, she drags.
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Seneca
In fulfilling the duties of a person, we do not lock ourselves in the walls of one city or state, but we go out into the open space of the world.
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Plato
Inviolability of the law is the only true exponent of freedom.
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Aristotle
A virtue arises and grows mainly through learning and that’s why it needs a long exercise.
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Aristotle
It is natural for us to acquire virtues, and through cultivation, we are improving in them.
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Aristotle
The best person is not the one who acts in accordance with virtue in relation to himself, but the one who does so according to relation to others, and this is a difficult matter.
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Unknown philosopher
nosce te ipsum (lat.) – “know thyself”. An inscription in the Delphi temple of Apollo, which Socrates chose as his motto and Chilon of Sparta developed to: “know thyself, and you will know the gods and the universe.”