Quotes by Philosophers - Page 46

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Prosperity makes few friends.
Vauvenargues
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.
G.K. Chesterton
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.
Michel de Montaigne
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.
Cicero
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
Sir Francis Bacon
Forgive others often yourself never.
Syrus
Bear and forbear.
Epictetus
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
Michel de Montaigne
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
Marcus Aurelius
True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
G.K. Chesterton
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.
Cicero
I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.
Donald Horban
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
Epicurus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.
Epicurus
How many things there are which I do not want.
Socrates
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
Lucretius
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
Horace
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.
Francis Schaeffer
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
G.K. Chesterton
Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.
Epictetus
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Epicurus
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracián
The end of pain we take as happiness.
Giacomo Leopardi
You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
Giacomo Leopardi
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering from positive evil.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Elbert Hubbard
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
G.K. Chesterton
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Heschel
However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
Henry David Thoreau
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca