Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"Philosophy is the art of being born twice."
Suetonius
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"What we think, we become."
Suetonius
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"A man is the creature of his times, and his conduct must be judged in relation to his contemporaries."
Horace
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"The sound of a bell is not a bell."
Horace
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"Reflect on yourself, and let your judge be within."
Pliny the Younger
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"The measure of a person is not their wealth but their character."
Pliny the Younger
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"The life of the mind is the truest life of all."
Pliny the Younger
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"The greatest battles are fought within the human heart."
Pliny the Younger
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"Custom is the guide of all human life."
Tacitus
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"Those who praise their own times are fools."
Tacitus
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"The measure of a person is not their wealth but their wisdom."
Tacitus
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"Philosophy without practice is merely pleasant conversation."
Tacitus
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"In the flux of events, only virtue remains constant."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"The clash of cultures teaches lessons that isolated societies cannot learn."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"A person's true wealth lies not in possessions but in knowledge and virtue."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"The face of fate reveals itself only to those who study its manifestations carefully."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"The philosopher is not afraid of death; he is afraid of living wrongly."
Pliny the Elder
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"To understand humanity, study the forest, not the trees."
Pliny the Elder
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"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Cato the Younger
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"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."
Cato the Younger
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"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."
Cato the Younger
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"The interval between a man's discovery of virtue and his practice of it."
Livy
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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
Livy
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"Philosophy teaches us how to live."
Livy
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"The mind is the man; the rest merely flesh and blood"
Cato the Elder
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"The mind of man is like a mirror; it reflects what it contemplates"
Cato the Elder
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time"
Cato the Elder
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"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."
Horace
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
Horace
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"The highest type of man regards the highest idea as his law."
Horace