Friendship with dead


Socrates (Greece - 399BC)
  • An examined life is not worth living.
  • True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
  • To find yourself, think for yourself.
  • By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you will be happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. 
  • Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
  • Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
  • The way to get gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Plato (Greece philosopher- 348BC)
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
  • Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Aristotle (Greece - 384BC-322BC)
  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
  • I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Immanuel Kant (German philosopher in 1724 - 1804)
  • Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Pythagoras
  • The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
  • Reason is immortal, all else is mortal.
  • Do not way a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
  • As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Prince
  • Be present
  • Be careful who you trust.
  • Learn from the best.
  • Be picky about who works for you.
  • Read
  • Prepare for the worth
  • Don’t be cruel
  • Don’t steal
  • Appearances matter.
  • Sometimes your enemies are your friends.
  • Avoid flatterers.



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