Thoughts of the ancient sages. Idioms. Chinese folk wisdom

Διογένης, 412-323 π. Χ. Κυνικός φιλόσοφος

1. Ο θρίαμβος της νίκης του εαυτού μας είναι το στέμμα της φιλοσοφίας.
   The triumph of victory over oneself is the crown of philosophy
2. Ο καλύτερος τρόπος να βασανίζεις τους εχθρούς σου είναι να έχεις πάντα καλή διάθεση
   The best way to torment your enemies is to always be in a good mood
3. Όταν είναι κανείς νέος, είναι πολύ νωρίς. Όταν είναι γέρος, είναι πολύ αργά
   When young it's too early, when old it's too late

Αριστοτέλης, 384-322 π. Χ. Αρχαίος Έλληνας Φιλόσοφος

1. Η ευγνωμοσύνη γερνάει γρήγορα
   Gratitude gets old fast
2. Η ομορφιά είναι θείο δώρο
   Beauty is a gift from God
3. Οι ρίζες της μόρφωσης είναι πικρές, ο καρπός όμως γλυκός
   The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet
4. Φίλος είναι μια ψυχή που κατοικεί σε δύο σώματα
   A friend is one soul living in two bodies
5. Έξις δευτέρα φύσις
   Habit is second nature
6. Τίποτα δεν γίνεται χωρίς αιτία
   Nothing happens without a reason
7. Η αυτογνωσία είναι αρχή της ανθρώπινης σοφίας
   Self-knowledge is the beginning of human wisdom
8. Μόνο με κόπο μπορείς να μάθεις
   You can only learn through hard work
9. Εργαζόμαστε, για να έχουμε ελεύθερο χρόνο, κ πολεμούμε, για να ζούμε ειρηνικά
   We work to have free time and fight to live peacefully
10. Από τη δικαιοσύνη πηγάζουν όλες οι αρετές
    From justice come all virtues
11. Περισσότερο πρέπει να τιμούμε αυτούς που ανατρέφουν κ εκπαιδεύουν καλά τα παιδιά, παρά εκείνους οι οποίοι τα γεννούν
    Those who raise and raise children well should be valued more than those who give birth to them.
12. Η φτώχεια που δεν έχει χρέη είναι μεγάλος πλούτος
    Poverty that has no debt is great wealth
13. Η μόρφωση είναι στολίδι στην ευτυχία και καταφύγιο στη δυστυχία
    Education is an adornment in happiness and a refuge in misfortune.
14. Ο στόχος του πολέμου είναι η ειρήνη
    The goal of war is peace

Πλάτων, 427-347 π. Χ. Φιλόσοφος

1. Ένα από τα πιο καλά κτήματα για τους ανθρώπους είναι η εκπαίδευση
   One of the best assets for people is education
2. Ότι είναι τα μάτια για το σώμα είναι και οι γνώσεις για το πνεύμα
   What the eyes are to the body, so is knowledge to the spirit.

Σωκράτης, 469-399 π. Χ. Φιλόσοφος

1. Εν οίδα ότι ουδέν οίδα
   I know that I don't know anything
2. Δεν είμαι αθηναίος, ούτε Έλληνας πολίτης, αλλά πολίτης του κόσμου
   I'm not an Athenian, not a Greek, I'm a citizen of the world
3. Ο φθόνος είναι έλκος της ψυχής
   Envy is an ulcer of the soul
4. Ο καλύτερος γάμος: όταν η γυναίκα είναι τυφλή και ο άνδρας κουφός
   The best marriage is when the wife is blind and the husband is deaf
5. Η ομορφιά είναι μια βασίλισσα που κυριαρχεί όχι και πολύ καιρό
   Beauty is a queen who reigns for a very short time

Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος, Μαθηματικός - Αστρονόμος - Φιλόσοφος, 569 - 500 π. Χ.

1. Μην ψάχνεις την ευτυχία: είναι πάντοτε μέσα σου
   Don't look for happiness - it's always inside you
2. Ο Θεός δεν έχει καλύτερη κατοικία πάνω στη γη, από την καθαρή ψυχή
   God has no better home on earth than a pure soul
3. Αν δεν μπορείς να έχεις έναν πιστό φίλο, να είσαι ο ίδιος φίλος του εαυτού σου
   If you can't have a true friend, be your own friend
4. Το κύπελλο της ζωής θα ήταν πολύ γλυκανάλατο, αν δεν έπεφταν μέσα μερικά πικρά δάκρυα
   The cup of life would be very insipid if a few bitter tears did not fall into it
5. Τους φίλους να μην τους κάνετε εχθρούς κ τους εχθρούς να καταφέρνετε να τους κάνετε φίλους
   Don't make friends enemies, but try to make enemies friends

Alexander the Great (Alexander the Great) (356-323 BC) king of Macedonia, commander

Alexander the Great, having argued with a musician about some issues of harmony, thought that he had convinced him. However, he, smiling slightly, said: “May no such misfortune befall you, king, so that you understand this better than me.”

You will get as much land as is enough for your burial. (Indian sages - Alexander the Great).

There is nothing more slavish than luxury and bliss, and nothing more royal than labor.

Alexander said that sleep and intimacy with a woman, more than anything else, make him feel mortal, since fatigue and voluptuousness stem from the same weakness of human nature.

When those close to him asked Alexander, who was distinguished by his quick feet, if he would like to compete in running at the Olympic Games, he replied: “Yes, if my opponents are kings!”

I owe it to Philip that I live, and to Aristotle that I live with dignity.

If I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes.

When Darius offered him [Alexander] 10,000 talents and half the power over Asia, Parmenion said: "I would accept if I were Alexander." “And I, witness Zeus,” answered Alexander, “if I were Parmenion.”

Just as there are no two suns above the earth, so there are no two kings above Asia. (Alexander the Great to the Persian king Darius.)

Those close to him advised Alexander to attack his enemies at night. He replied: “I don’t steal the victory.”

Once, after reading a long letter from Antipater with accusations against Olympias, Alexander said: “Antipater does not know that one mother’s tear will make thousands of such letters forgotten.”

He [Alexander] sent the philosopher Xenocrates a gift of 50 talents, but he refused, saying that he did not need the money. “Does Xenocrates really not even have a friend?” asked Alexander. “And my friends barely even had all the wealth of King Darius.”

Alexander said that he considered Achilles lucky, because during his life he had a devoted friend, and after his death - a great herald of his glory.

I see that there will be a great competition over my grave.

Scopas the Thessalian

The Thessalian Skopas, when asked for some superfluous and useless thing from his home furnishings, replied: “But it is this superfluity that makes us happy, and not what everyone needs.”

Pelopidas (c. 410-364 BC) Theban commander

The Theban Pelopidas was going to war, and his wife asked him to take care of himself. “This must be told to others,” said Pelopidas, “and the commander must take care of his fellow citizens.”

Philip II of Macedon (c. 382-336 BC) king of Macedonia from 356 BC, father of Alexander the Great, conqueror of Greece.

Having intended to stop at a beautiful place, but suddenly learning that there was no grass there for the pack donkey, he [Philip] said: “This is our life: we live in such a way that the donkeys will like it!”

When he [Philip] wanted to take one well-fortified place, and the spies reported that it was inaccessible and vast from everywhere, he asked: “Is it really so inaccessible that a donkey with a golden load could not pass through?”

When his friends were indignant that at the Olympic Games he was booed by the Peloponnesians, whom he had treated so well, he [Philip] said: “What would have happened if I had treated them badly.”

When someone told Leonid that he was leading too few people into battle, he replied: “Too many - because they are doomed to death.”

When his wife asked him [Leonid] during his departure if he would tell her something goodbye, he said, turning around: “I wish you a good husband and good children.”

When, during the battle of Thermopylae, someone exclaimed: “Because of the barbarian arrows the sun is not visible,” Leonidas said: “Okay, we will fight in the shadows.”

One of the Spartans said: “The barbarians are already near.” Leonidas replied: “So we are close to them.”

Leonidas ordered his soldiers to have breakfast, announcing that they would have lunch in Hades.

Euclid (turn of the 4th-3rd centuries BC) mathematician, worked in Alexandria

What is accepted without evidence can be rejected without evidence.

There is no royal path in geometry. (Euclid’s response to the Egyptian king Ptolemy I, who asked to show him an easier way to study geometry).

Sophocles (c. 496-406 BC) Athenian playwright and tragedian

There was once a first time for everything in the world.

Don't praise him while he's alive!

Sophocles said that he composes people as they should be, and Euripides - as they are.

Sophocles, already under the burden of years, when asked if he indulged in love pleasures, (...) replied: “May the gods protect me from this! I joyfully fled from them, as from a rude and furious master.”

How terrible the mind can be if it does not serve a person.

Happiness does not help the careless.

Happiness does not favor the faint-hearted.

Great things don't happen overnight.

Those who have made a mistake without intent are not greatly angry.

Intelligence is undoubtedly the first condition for happiness.

It's better to be simple and honest than smart and deceitful.

Talking a lot and saying a lot are not the same thing.

Wisdom is the native mother of happiness.

Whoever God wants to destroy, he first deprives him of his reason.

Socrates (470-399 BC) philosopher, student of Anaxagoras, from Athens

No one can learn anything from a person they don't like.

In his prayers, he [Socrates] simply asked the gods to grant good, for the gods know better than anyone what good consists of.

Socrates advised avoiding foods that tempt a person to eat without feeling hungry. (...) He joked that Kirk [Circe] must have turned people into pigs, treating them to such dishes in abundance; and Odysseus (...) refrained from using them excessively and therefore did not turn into a pig.

Those who want to have a lot of trouble themselves and cause it to others, I (...) would put in the category of those fit for power.

If, living among people, you do not want to either rule or be ruled and do not voluntarily serve the rulers, then I think you see how strong (...) and entire communities are able to keep everyone separately in slavery.

It is not very easy to find a job for which you will not hear reproaches; It is very difficult to do anything without making mistakes.

Envious people (...) are only those who grieve over the happiness of their friends.

It is difficult (...) to find a doctor who would know better than the person himself (...) what is good for his health.

Before the trial of Socrates began, one of his friends asked: “Shouldn’t (...) think about what to say in your own defense?” - Socrates (...) answered: “Wasn’t (...) my whole life a preparation for defense?”

An ardently devoted to Socrates, but a simple-minded man, a certain Apollodorus, said: “But it is especially hard for me, Socrates, that you are sentenced to death unjustly.” Socrates, they say, stroked him on the head and said: “Would you (...) be more pleased to see that I was sentenced fairly?”

I went to the poets (...) and asked them what exactly they wanted to say, so that, by the way, I could learn something from them. It’s a shame (...) to tell you the truth, but it’s still worth telling. (...) Almost everyone present there could better explain what was done by these poets than they themselves. (...) They can do what they do not with wisdom, but with some innate ability and in a frenzy, like fortune-tellers and soothsayers; After all, these people also say a lot of good things, but they don’t know at all what they are talking about.

The wisest is the one who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is truly worthless.

There is no person who could survive if he openly opposed (...) the majority and wanted to prevent all the many injustices and lawlessness that are committed in the state. No, whoever really stands up for justice, even if he is destined to survive for a short time, must remain a private person and should not enter the public field.

Socrates used to say that he himself eats to live, but other people live to eat.

If someone were to take that night on which he slept so much that he did not even see a dream, compare this night with the rest of the nights and days of his life and, after thinking, say how many days and nights he lived better in his life and more pleasant than that night, then, I think, not only every simple person, but even the Great King himself would find that counting such days in comparison with the rest is worth nothing. So if death is like this, I (...) will call it gain, because in this way it turns out that the whole life is no better than one night.

Think less about Socrates, but mainly about the truth.

Last words: We owe Asclepius a rooster. So give it away, don’t forget. (The rooster was brought to Asclepius, the god of healing, by those recovering. Socrates believed that death for his soul was recovery and liberation from earthly adversities).

They say that Euripides gave him [Socrates] the work of Heraclitus and asked his opinion; he replied: “What I understood was great; what I didn’t understand, probably, too.”

Often he [Socrates] used to say, looking at the multitude of market goods: “How many things there are that you can live without!”

It’s surprising: every person can easily say how many sheep he has, but not everyone can say how many friends he has - they are so not valuable.

Beauty is a short-lived kingdom.

Socrates said (...) that he knows only that he knows nothing.

To the man who asked whether he should marry or not, he [Socrates] replied: “Do what you want, you will repent anyway.”

When he [Antisthenes] began to show off a hole in his cloak, Socrates, noticing this, said: “Through this cloak I see your vanity!”

Socrates once had to admonish (...) Alcibiades, who was timid and afraid to give a speech to the people. To encourage and calm him, Socrates asked: “Don’t you despise that shoemaker over there?” - and the philosopher called his name. Alcibiades answered in the affirmative; then Socrates continued: “Well, what about this peddler or the craftsman who sews scarves?” The young man confirmed again. “So,” continued Socrates, “the Athenian people consist of similar people. If you despise each individual, you should despise everyone collectively.”

When he [Socrates] was told: “The Athenians condemned you to death,” he replied: “But nature condemned them themselves.”

Seeing that the government of thirty tyrants was killing the most glorious citizens and persecuting those who possessed significant wealth, Socrates (...) said: "(...) Never was there such a brave and daring tragic poet who would bring onto the stage doomed to death choir!

When Socrates fell ill in old age and someone asked him how things were going, the philosopher replied: “Wonderful in every sense: if I manage to get better, I will make more envious people, and if I die, more friends.”

It is not difficult to praise Athenians among Athenians.

Socrates, when he was already sentenced to death and imprisoned, hearing a musician singing the verses of Stesichorus to the accompaniment of the lyre, asked him to teach him while there was still time; When asked by the singer what benefit it would give him when he had to die the day after tomorrow, Socrates replied: “To die, knowing a little more.”

The sun has one drawback: it cannot see itself.

All I know is that I don't know anything.

The less a person needs, the closer he is to the gods.

Whoever wants to move the world, let him move himself!

A good start is not a small thing, even if it starts with a small thing.

Education is a difficult matter, and improving its conditions is one of the sacred duties of every person, for there is nothing more important than the education of oneself and one's neighbors.

There is only one good - knowledge and only one evil - ignorance.

The highest wisdom is to distinguish between good and evil.

Wisdom is the queen of heaven and earth.

People find it easier to hold a hot coal on their tongue than a secret.

A good advisor is better than any wealth.

Good people should be trusted by word and reason, and not by oath.

Speak so I can see you.

It is better to die courageously than to live in shame.

Without friendship, no communication between people has value.

It would be good for a person to examine himself, how much he is worth to his friends, and to try to be as valuable as possible.

The love of a woman is more to be feared than the hatred of a man. This is poison, all the more dangerous because it is pleasant.

The flame is kindled by the wind, and attraction by proximity.

Beauty is a queen who reigns for a very short time.

Marriage, to tell the truth, is evil, but a necessary evil.

Get married no matter what. If you get a good wife, you will be an exception, and if you get a bad wife, you will become a philosopher.

In your clothes, try to be elegant, but not dandy; the sign of grace is decency, and the sign of panache is excess.

When the word does not hit, then the stick will not help.

What kind of person, being a slave to pleasure, will not pervert his body and soul?

He is richest who is satisfied with little, for such contentment testifies to the wealth of nature.

I want to use whole body gymnastics to make him more balanced.

The best seasoning for food is hunger.

You cannot heal the body without healing the soul.

If a person takes care of his own health, then it is difficult to find a doctor who would know better what is beneficial for his health than himself.

Pythagoras (VI century BC) philosopher, mathematician, religious and political figure, founder of the Pythagorean school, born on the island of Samos

All things are like numbers.

Everything that is known has a number, for it is impossible to understand anything or know anything without it.

Harmony is (..) the agreement of discord.

A sage, according to him [Pythagoras], can only be a god, not a man. (...) A philosopher who is “wise of wisdom” is simply someone who is attracted to wisdom.

Life(...) is like games: some come to compete, others come to trade, and the happiest come to watch; so in life, others, like slaves, are born greedy for glory and profit, while philosophers are born greedy for the truth alone.

Give in to lust in winter, do not give in in summer; It is less dangerous in spring and autumn, but it is dangerous at any time and is not good for health.

Friends have everything in common, and friendship is equality.

Friendship is equality.

The soul makes a circle of inevitability, alternately putting on first one life and then another.

When leaving for a foreign land, don’t look back.

Pythagoras forbids praying for himself, because we do not know what our benefit is.

He [Pythagoras] divided human life like this: “Twenty years - a boy, another twenty - a youth, another twenty - a youth, another twenty - an old man.”

“Don’t stir up fire with a knife,” that is, don’t hurt an angry and arrogant person with harsh words.

“When leaving, don’t look back,” that is, before death, don’t cling to life.

“Be with those who shoulder the burden, do not be with those who dump the burden,” - with this he ordered to encourage people not to idleness, but to virtue and to work.

Without the mind, a person does not know anything healthy, nothing true, and is not even able to grasp anything with any senses - only the mind itself sees everything and hears everything, but everything else is blind and deaf.

Where (...) there is a necessity, there is an opportunity.

Let us treat everyone prudently and fairly, not only the prudent and just, and we will not be honest with the honest or evil with the evil.

If something shameful is done with pleasure, then the pleasure passes, but the shame remains; if something worthy is accomplished with effort, then the effort passes, but the worthy remains.

More often they lose their measure in drinking than in eating.

Pythagoras prohibits leaving his guard post and leaving life without the order of the commander, that is, the deity. (About suicide).

Among the talking creatures there are gods, there are people, and then there is Pythagoras.

Blessed be the divine number that gave birth to gods and men.

Life is like games: some come to compete, others come to trade, and the happiest come to watch.

The cup of life would be sweet to the point of cloying if bitter tears did not fall into it.

If you can be an eagle, do not strive to be the first among the jackdaws.

Two things make a person godlike: living for the good of society and being truthful.

Be a friend of truth to the point of martyrdom, but do not be its defender to the point of intolerance.

Whatever they think of you, do what you think is fair. Be equally indifferent to both blame and praise.

A statue is painted by his appearance, but a man by his deeds.

When you wake up in the morning, ask yourself: “What should I do?” In the evening before falling asleep: "What have I done?"

Do great things without promising great things.

Don’t close your eyes when you want to sleep without having sorted out all your actions over the past day.

Try not to cover up your mistakes with words, but to heal them with accusations.

The whole life should be entrusted to reason alone, as a wise guardian.

Explore everything, give your mind first place.

It is more useful to throw a stone at random than an empty word.

No matter how short the words “yes” and “no” are, they still require the most serious consideration.

It is one and the same thing to take away the bitterness from wormwood and to cut off the insolence from a word.

Joke, like salt, should be consumed in moderation.

To learn the customs of any people, try to first learn their language.

Be silent or say something better than silence.

Flattery is like a weapon depicted in a painting: it brings pleasure, but no benefit.

Choose a friend for yourself; You cannot be happy alone: ​​happiness is a matter of two.

Live with people so that your friends do not become enemies, and your enemies become friends.

A man dies drunk from wine; he rages in the intoxication of love.

Prudent wife! If you want your husband to spend his free time next to you, then try so that he does not find so much pleasantness, pleasure, modesty and tenderness in any other place.

Save the tears of your children so that they can shed them at your grave.

Wash the insult received not in blood, but in Lethe, the river of oblivion.

First of all, don't lose your self-respect!

Do not do anything shameful, either in front of others or in secret. Your first law should be self-respect.

During anger one should neither speak nor act.

Just as old wine is unsuitable for drinking a lot, so rude treatment is unsuitable for an interview.

Drunkenness is an exercise in madness.

Those who are foolish when drinking wine reach the point of intoxication, and in the event of misfortunes - to complete loss of mind.

Ask a drunkard how he could stop drinking? I will answer for him: let him remember more often the things he does while drunk.

In boasters, as in gilded weapons, the inside does not match the outside.

Only an ignoble person is capable of praising to his face and slander behind his back.

No one should exceed the limit in food or drink.

Winged expressions, great sayings, quotes, wise sayings.

Anything can be a teacher

The only real courage is to be yourself.

To become a blacksmith, you need to forge.

The best teacher in life is experience. Charges a lot, but explains clearly.

Learn from your mistakes. This feature is the only thing useful about them.

Through thorns to the stars, drawing: caricatura.ru

Courage, will, knowledge and silence are the assets and weapons of those who follow the path of improvement.

When the disciples' ears are ready to hear, lips appear ready to fill them with wisdom.

The mouth of wisdom is open only to the ears of understanding.

Books give knowledge, but they cannot tell everything. First seek wisdom from the scriptures, and then seek Supreme guidance.

The soul is a prisoner of its ignorance. She is chained by the chains of ignorance to an existence in which she cannot control her destiny. The purpose of every virtue is to eliminate one such chain.

Those who gave you your body endowed it with weakness. But EVERYTHING that gave you a soul armed you with determination. Act decisively and you will be wise. Be wise and you will find happiness.

The greatest treasures given to man are judgment and will. Happy is he who knows how to use them.

Anything can be a teacher.

The "I" chooses the "I"'s method of teaching.

Giving up freedom of thought may mean losing the last opportunity to understand the laws of the Universe.

True knowledge comes from the highest path, which leads to the eternal Fire. Delusion, defeat and death arise when a person follows the lower path of earthly attachments.

Wisdom is the child of learning; Truth is the child of wisdom and love.

Death occurs when the purpose of life is achieved; death shows what the meaning of life is.

When you meet an arguer who is inferior to you, do not try to crush him with the force of your arguments. He is weak and will give himself away. Don't respond to evil speeches. Don't indulge your blind passion to win at any cost. You will defeat him by the fact that those present will agree with you.

True wisdom is far from stupidity. A wise man often doubts and changes his mind. A fool is stubborn and stands his ground, knowing everything except his ignorance.

Only one part of the soul penetrates into the earthly chain of time, while the other remains in timelessness.

Avoid talking to many people about your knowledge. Don’t keep it selfishly for yourself, but don’t expose it to the ridicule of the crowd. A loved one will understand the truth of your words. The distant one will never be your friend.

May these words remain in the casket of your body and may they keep your tongue from idle talk.

Be careful not to misunderstand the teaching.

The spirit is life, and the body is needed in order to live.

Life is movement, photo informaticslib.ru

Great Sayings of the Sages

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Confucius

What you believe in is what you will become.

Feelings, emotions and passions are good servants, but bad masters.

Those who want, look for opportunities, those who don’t want, look for reasons. - Socrates

You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created the problem. - Einstein

Whatever the life around us, for us it is always painted in the color that arises in the depths of our being. - M.Gandhi

The observer is the observed. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The most important necessity in life is a feeling of being in demand. Until a person feels that someone needs him, his life will remain meaningless and empty. - Osho

Statements

To be conscious means to remember, to be aware, and to sin means not to be aware, to forget. - Osho

Happiness is your inner nature. It does not need any external conditions; it simply is, happiness is you. - Osho

Happiness is always found within yourself. - Pythagoras

Life is empty if you live only for yourself. By giving, you live. - Audrey Hepburn

Listen, how a person insults others is how he characterizes himself.

No one leaves anyone, someone just moves forward. The one who lags behind believes that he was abandoned.

Take responsibility for the results of communication. Not “I was provoked”, but “I allowed myself to be provoked” or succumbed to provocation. This approach helps to gain experience.

A touchy person is a sick person and it is better not to communicate with him.

Nobody owes you anything - be grateful for little things.

Be clear, but don't demand to be understood.

• God always surrounds us with those people with whom we need to heal from our shortcomings. - Simeon of Athos
• A married man's happiness depends on those he is not married to. - O. Wilde
• Words can prevent death. Words can bring the dead to life. - Navoi
• When you don’t know words, you have no way to get to know people. - Confucius
• He who neglects the word harms himself. - Proverbs of Solomon 13:13

Idioms

Horatio, there are many things in the world that our sages never dreamed of...

And there are spots in the sun.

Harmony is the union of opposites.

• The whole world is a theater, and people are actors. - Shakespeare

Great Quotes

Time doesn't like to be wasted. - Henry Ford

Failure is simply an opportunity to start again, but more wisely.- Henry Ford

Lack of self-confidence is the cause of most of our failures. - K.Bovey

The attitude towards children is an unmistakable measure of the spiritual dignity of people. - Ya.Bryl

Two things always fill the soul with new and ever stronger surprise, the more often and longer we reflect on them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. - I. Kant

If the problem can be resolved, there is no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, there is no point in worrying about it. - Dalai Lama

Knowledge always gives freedom. - Osho

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About friendship

A true friend is known in misfortune. - Aesop

My friend is the one to whom I can tell everything. - V.G. Belinsky

As rare as true love is, true friendship is even rarer. - La Rochefoucauld

Affection can do without reciprocity, but friendship never can. - J. Rousseau

Friedrich Nietzsche

• A woman is considered thoughtful, why?
  Because they can’t find out the reasons for her actions. The reason for her actions never lies on the surface.

  The same affects in men and women differ in tempo; That’s why a man and a woman never stop misunderstanding each other.

  Everyone carries within himself the image of a woman, received from his mother; this determines whether a person will honor women in general, or despise them, or, in general, treat them with indifference.

  If spouses did not live together, good marriages would occur more often.

  A lot of short madness - you call it love. And your marriage, like one long folly, puts an end to many short follies.

  Your love for your wife and your wife's love for her husband - ah, if only it could be pity for the suffering hidden gods! But almost always two animals guess each other.

  And even your best love is only an enthusiastic symbol and painful ardor. Love is a torch that should shine for you on higher paths.

  A little good food can often make the difference between whether we look at the future with hope or despondency. This is true even in the most sublime and spiritual realms of man.

  Sometimes sensuality overtakes love, the root of love remains weak, unrooted, and it is not difficult to pull it out.

  We praise or blame, depending on whether one or the other gives us a greater opportunity to discover the brilliance of our mind.

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Aphorism (Greek aphorismos - short saying), a generalized, complete and deep thought of a certain author, predominantly of a philosophical or practical-moral meaning, expressed in a laconic, polished form.

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updated 04/08/2016

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This collection of wise quotes, aphorisms and sayings is a continuation of the previously published post:.

Judging by the number of views, site visitors liked the wisdom of the ancients, and I decided to continue publishing. Maybe you'll get a whole collection of wisdom, quotes and aphorisms from the times of Ancient Egypt to the present day.

In the meantime, a selection of quotes from the sages of Ancient Greece.

Quotes, aphorisms and sayings of the Greek sages

Out of love for children, some people should not have them.

The wise men speak, but matters are decided by the ignorant people from the People's Assembly.

Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =

The Athenian reproached him, Anacharsis, for being a Scythian. Anarchsis replied: “If I am a disgrace, my homeland is a disgrace, and you are a disgrace to your homeland.”

Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =

Safe ships are beached ships.

Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =

The market is a place deliberately designated to deceive and rob each other.

Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =

An angry person is like coal: if it doesn’t burn, it blackens you.

Ancient Greece. Anacharsis =

It is also likely that a lot of incredible things are happening.

Ancient Greece. Agathon =

Everyone who is touched by Eros becomes a poet.

Ancient Greece. Agathon =

Even the gods cannot change the past.

Ancient Greece. Agathon =

In the end, having abandoned everything, he [Anaxagoras] took up the speculation of nature, without worrying about any state affairs.

They asked him: “And you don’t care about your fatherland?”

He replied: “Not at all, I really care about the fatherland!” - and pointed to the sky.

Anaxagoras, after the death of his beloved son, did not fall into madness, as those around him expected. When asked the reason, he replied: "I always knew that I gave birth to a mortal."

Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras Klazomensky =

Someone lamented that he was dying in a foreign land; Anaxagoras told him: “The descent into Hades is the same from everywhere.”

Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras Klazomensky =

Nothing can be known, nothing can be learned, nothing can be ascertained: feelings are limited, the mind is weak, life is short.

Ancient Greece. Anaxagoras Klazomensky =

Characteristic of wisdom is the ability to find for everyone its own kind of wisdom, and ignorance is characterized by addressing different people with monotonous speech.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

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Lovers often deceive and promise the impossible.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

The beginning of education is the study of words.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Do not neglect your enemies: they are the first to notice your mistakes.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

It is difficult to endure an educated and intelligent person, since unreason is an easy and unburdensome thing, but reason is adamant, unshakable, its weight is insurmountable.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Virtue is the same for both men and women.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Pleasure is good, but [only] when it does not cause remorse.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

The lions took the floor when, having gathered for a council, the hares demanded equality for everyone.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

A holiday is an occasion for gluttony.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

One should strive for pleasures that come after work, and not before work.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Politics should be treated like fire: do not come too close so as not to get burned, and do not move too far away so as not to freeze.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Don’t notice the old man’s mistake: it is useless to replant an old tree.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Ignorant people are like those who are awake and in a dream state.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

When asked which woman is better to take as a wife, he [Antisthenes] replied: “The beautiful one will be a common property, the ugly one will be your punishment.”

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

When asked what is most blissful for a person, he [Antisthenes] said: “To die happy.”

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

When asked what philosophy gave him, he [Antisthenes] replied: “The ability to talk with oneself.”

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

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Someone said that war destroys the poor; Antisthenes remarked: “On the contrary, she gives birth to them in abundance.”

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Once, when Antisthenes exclaimed: “Oh, who will save me from suffering!”, Diogenes showed him a dagger and said: “That’s who” - “I said: from suffering, not from life!” - Antisthenes objected.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

States perish when they cease to distinguish the bad from the good.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

It is better to fight among a few good people against many bad ones, than among many bad people against a few good ones.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

Restraint is more necessary for those who hear bad things about themselves than for those at whom stones are thrown.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

It is better to fall to vultures than to fall to flatterers. Those devour the dead, and these devour the living.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

You need to meet those women who themselves will be grateful for it.

Ancient Greece. Antisthenes =

He, Apelles (painter and court artist of Alexander the Great), exhibited his completed works in an open gazebo and, hiding behind the painting, listened to the comments of those passing by, since he considered the people a more attentive judge than himself. Once, they say, a spectator-shoemaker noted that on the inside of the boot there was one less loop than it should be. The next day, proud that the omission he had pointed out had been corrected, the shoemaker began to elaborate on the image of the foot. Then the angry artist came out of hiding and exclaimed: “Shoemaker, judge no higher than the boot.”

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

I am a stranger everywhere.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

In no case do I put myself among those who want to rule. It’s a difficult task to get what you need for yourself; but only a complete madman can, not being content with this, impose on himself a new burden - to deliver to all citizens what they need.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

Someone brought his son to study with him, Aristippus asked for five hundred drachmas. The father said: “For this money I can buy a slave!”

“Buy,” said Aristippus, “and you will have two whole slaves.”

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

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He [Aristippus] asked the man who decried the luxury of his table: “Would you refuse to buy all this for three obols?” “Of course not,” he replied. “So, it’s just that money is more valuable to you than pleasure to me.”

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

Indeed, generosity will never ruin Dionysius [the ruler of Syracuse]: to us, who ask a lot, he gives little, but to Plato, who takes nothing, he gives a lot.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

When teaching brought him [Aristippus] a lot of money, Socrates asked him: “Why do you need so much?” And he replied: “For the same thing for which you have so little.”

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

Just as those who eat a lot are not healthier than those who eat the bare necessities, so true scholars are not those who read a lot, but those who read useful things.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

If luxury were bad, it would not be at the feasts of the gods.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

It is better to be a beggar than an ignoramus: if the first is deprived of money, then the second is deprived of human image.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

Your right is to swear, my right is not to listen.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

Does it really matter whether you occupy a house in which many have lived or one in which no one has lived? And does it really matter whether you sail on a ship where thousands of people have already sailed, or where no one has sailed yet? It’s just the same whether you live with a woman whom many have already known, or with one whom no one has touched.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

The best lot is not to abstain from pleasures, but to rule over them without submitting to them.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

Children should be taught what will be useful to them when they grow up.

Ancient Greece. Apelles =

6th century BC

Anaximenes

Knowledge increases ignorance.

Biant

Life must be measured as if you have both a lot and a little left to live.

I carry everything I have with me.

Chilon

Learn to be a good leader in your own home.

Do not preempt thought with your tongue.

Do not encroach on what is beyond your strength.

Xenophanes

A person who wants to find a sage must be wise himself.

Pythagoras

Don't chase happiness: it is always within you.

Life is like games: some come to compete, others to trade, and the happiest come to watch.

Do great things without promising great things.

Of two people of equal strength, the one who is right is stronger.

The beginning is half of everything.

Do not reason with children, women and people.

Try to be wise first, and learn when you have free time.

Only one deity can possess comprehensive wisdom, and man can only strive for it.

A statue is painted by his appearance, but a man by his deeds.

Joke, like salt, should be consumed in moderation.

Lao Tzu

True words are not graceful, graceful words are not true.

He who is dead but not forgotten is immortal.

Look at the matter as difficult, and in the end it will not be difficult.

By striving for little you gain, by striving for much you fall into error.

Buddha

Everything for everything, always.

For never in this world does hatred cease with hatred, but with the absence of hatred it ceases.

The jug fills from falling drops. A stupid person is filled with evil, even accumulating it little by little.

Confucius

Learning without reflection is useless, but reflection without learning is also dangerous.

It is enough that the words express the meaning.

Don't do to a person what you don't want to do to yourself.

Be hard on yourself and gentle on others. This way you will protect yourself from human hostility.

He who repeats the old and learns the new can be a leader.

A person has three paths to reason: the path of reflection is the most noble; the path of imitation is the easiest; the path of personal experience is the most difficult.

Visiting and listening to evil people is already the beginning of an evil deed.

The word by which you can live your whole life is indulgence.

Paying good for evil is absurd. How then to pay for good?

The madman complains that people don't know him; the sage complains that he does not know people.

Theognis

I bequeath: do not be zealous in anything.
Choose the middle in everything
You will see the same success as working hard.

It is difficult for a reasonable person to have a long conversation with fools.
But to remain silent all the time is beyond human strength.

Epicharmus

There is no one in the world without sin and without reproach.

No, you are strong not to speak, but you are powerless to remain silent.

Heraclitus

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Everything flows, everything changes.

Let us not guess at random about the greatest!

When all people's wishes come true, it is no better for them.

Much knowledge does not teach intelligence.

People's opinions are child's play.

If happiness consisted only in bodily pleasures, we would call the bulls happy who found peas to eat.

Melissa

Nothing comes from nothing.

There is no emptiness at all. For emptiness is nothing. So, that which is nothing cannot exist.