Topic
Community
“What does not benefit the swarm does not benefit the bee either.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The best way to avenge yourself: do not become like the one who did the wrong.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of Matthew
“Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Sermon on the Mount
“A new commandment I give you: love one another as I have loved you.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Gospel of John
“The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem those who think alike above those who think differently.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Daybreak
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant · Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means.”
Immanuel Kant · Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“Man can only become man through education.”
Immanuel Kant · On Education
“It is far safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two must be lacking.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“Everyone sees what you appear to be. Few feel what you are.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“Men forget the death of a father sooner than the loss of their inheritance.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“People become sociable out of poverty of self.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Parerga and Paralipomena
“Nothing is easier than condemning a person. Nothing is harder than understanding them.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · From the novels
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we listen twice as much as we speak.”
Epictetus · From the Discourses
“Say to yourself at dawn: today I will meet the ungrateful, the arrogant, the envious. None of them can harm me.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The best revenge is to be unlike the one who did the wrong.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The one who is feared by many has many to fear.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.”
Epictetus · Fragments
“If someone blames you and you are not disturbed, they have struck nothing that belongs to you.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: with it one gets through many a bad night.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil
“Solitude is the price one pays for being oneself.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
“Courtesy is like a coating of wax: it costs little and protects much.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · Parerga and Paralipomena
“Act so that the maxim of your will could always hold as a principle of universal law.”
Immanuel Kant · Critique of Practical Reason
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.”
Immanuel Kant · Idea for a Universal History
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Jesus of Nazareth · John 8:7
“By their fruits you shall know them.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Matthew 7:16
“Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye and not the beam in your own?”
Jesus of Nazareth · Matthew 7:3
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
Jesus of Nazareth · Matthew 5:9
“Everyone sees what you appear to be. Few feel what you are.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“Whoever makes another powerful ruins themselves.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“People forget the death of a father sooner than the loss of their inheritance.”
Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince
“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov
“Do not waste the rest of your life thinking about other people.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The wise demand nothing of another and reproach no one.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“Man is the only creature that must be educated.”
Immanuel Kant · On Education
