Greet your fate with open hands. It was chosen for you, now do the best you can with it
Tag: greek philosophy
Cato
Only speak when you’re certain what you’ll say isn’t better left unsaid
Clarify your path
If your path isn’t clear, you will rely on the most uncertain guide — the common opinion
-Socrates
Seneca
Greatness of soul will be lost, which can’t stand out unless it disdains as petty what the mob regards as most desirable
Socrates
Do not deem yourself happy until you can live your life in front of the eyes of others.
Let walls protect you, not hide you away to sin more secretly.
A good conscience welcomes the crowd, a bad seeks solitude.
If you’re honorable let people see. How wretched are you if you despise a witness?
Epictetus
Let silence be your general rule, or only say what is necessary and only in few words
Awake your intelligence
Observing your stupidity is the awakening of intelligence -Krishnamurti
Fame
We only want to be famous if we are doing something we don’t love. Because if we loved what we did we wouldn’t have the need to be famous. -Krishnamurti
Fame is the last desire the wise man drops. -Schopenhauer
Happiness by Aristotle
Be self-sufficient. Independent. Don’t need any one for anything.
Just like my eastern philosophers say: don’t place your happiness in anything external. You cannot control the external, so don’t let it control your happiness
Hypocrite
Remove the beam in your eye before you mention the splinters in others
Careful what you believe
Everything we hear is just an opinion. Marcus Aurelius said that and I have to say it couldn’t be more true. There has been countless of times when I’ve listened to strangers, taken their advice and believed it as fact. We are all wrong most of the time, especially when we talk about personal preferences. Trust but verify. Do your own research.
Observe Love Create 