Today Quotes
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
All is flux, nothing stays still.Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nothing endures but change.Heraclitus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
Much learning does not teach understanding.Heraclitus, On the Universe