Philosophy quotes — page 2

Remember that you are an actor in a play, of such a kind as the playwright may choose.

The beginning of philosophy is a consciousness of one's own weakness and inability concerning necessary things.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.

There are more things that frighten us than crush us, and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

All else belongs to others; time alone is ours.

If you wish to be loved, love.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Claim yourself for yourself.

Leisure without study is death — a tomb for a living man.

He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

A multitude of books distracts; since you cannot read all you have, it is enough to have as much as you can read.

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the soul is dyed by its impressions.

The universe is change; life is opinion.

Begin the morning by saying to yourself: Today I shall meet the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant…

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

If you are distressed by anything external, it is not the thing itself that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Nothing can be created from nothing by divine agency.

Therefore death is nothing to us, and does not concern us at all.

You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I do not know.

Give what you command, and command what you will.

Faith seeking understanding.