6 Quotable Quotes - The Inside Story
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Wisdom is often said to be the true currency of life.
If you're looking for a new way to gain wisdom, look no further than these quotes. They can help you fall in love with yourself again, understand the world from different perspectives and save your sanity every now and then!
1. Man conquers the world by conquering himself. - ZENO
Zeno of Citium was the founder of the Stoic School of philosophy in Athens which taught that the Logos (Universal Reason) was the greatest good in life and living in accordance with reason was the purpose of human life.
2. The wise man accepts his pain and endures it, but does not add to it. - Marcus Aurelius.
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor known for his brave exploits against the Germans and the Parthians. He is also celebrated as a fearless ruler and for his philosophical mind.
3. No man is free who cannot control himself. - Pythagoras
Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. The theorem now known as Pythagoras's theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier but he may have been the first to prove it.
4. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. To get the basics of Aristotelian ethics, you have to understand three basic things: what Eudaimonia is, what Virtue is, and That We Become Better Persons Through Practice.
5. Rule your mind or it will rule you. - Horace
Horace, Latin in full Quintus Horatius Flaccus was a Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor Augustus. The most frequent themes of his Odes and verse Epistles are love, friendship, philosophy, and the art of poetry.
6. The power of thoughts can either cause you illness or recovery. - Ibn Sina
Among the great sages of Islamic medicine, Ibn Sina is the best known in the West. Considered as the successor to Galen, his great medical treatise, the Canon was the standard textbook on medicine in the Arab world and Europe in the 17th century. He was a philosopher, physician, psychiatrist and poet.
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