"Be a free-thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." - Aristotle.
"Be a free-thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." - Aristotle.
"Everybody wants to be big, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weight." - Ronnie Coleman (Champion Bodybuilder)
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." - Samuel Longhorn Clemens, AKA Mark Twain
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed." - Jonathan Swift
"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes the age comes alone." - Oscar Wilde
"If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection that which is sent by fate.
Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs.
Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God - saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust.
And if the others don't acknowledge it - this life, lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness - he doesn't resent them for it, and isn't deferred from following the road where it leads; to the end of life.
An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be." - Marcus Aurelius
"We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice." - Hierocles
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - SunTzu
"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others." - Confucius