Aphorisms about the future. Aphorisms about philosophy Philosophy triumphs over sorrows

Gratitude is simply a secret hope for further approval.

As long as we strive to help people, we will rarely encounter ingratitude.

It is a small misfortune to serve an ungrateful person, but a great misfortune is to accept a service from a scoundrel.

God

As punishment for original sin, God allowed man to create an idol out of selfishness, so that it would torment him on all paths of life.

Wealth

There are quite a lot of people who despise wealth but give little of it away.

Disease

What a boring disease it is to protect your health with an overly strict regime.

Talkativeness

Why do we remember in every detail what happened to us, but are unable to remember how many times we told the same person about it?

Petty minds have the gift of saying a lot and saying nothing.

Pain

Bodily pain is the only evil that reason can neither weaken nor heal.

Marriage

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Generosity

Magnanimity is the spirit of pride and the surest means of receiving praise.

Generosity is quite accurately defined by its name; Moreover, we can say that it is common sense pride and the most worthy path to good glory.

Loyalty

Having ceased to love, we rejoice when they cheat on us, thereby freeing us from the need to remain faithful.

Possibilities

In serious matters, one should be concerned not so much with creating favorable opportunities as with not missing them.

Enemy

Our enemies are much closer to the truth in their judgments about us than we are ourselves.

Arrogance

Arrogance is, in essence, the same pride that loudly declares its presence.

Stupidity

There is nothing stupider than the desire to always be smarter than everyone else.

There are no more intolerable fools than those who are not entirely devoid of intelligence.

Pride

Pride is common to all people; the only difference is how and when they manifest it.

Pride always recovers its losses and loses nothing even when it gives up vanity.

Pride does not want to be a debtor, and pride does not want to pay.

Pride, having played all the roles in a row in a human comedy and seems to be tired of its tricks and transformations, suddenly appears with an open face, arrogantly tearing off its mask.

If we were not overcome by pride, we would not complain about the pride of others.

It is not kindness, but pride that usually prompts us to admonish people who have committed wrongdoings.

The most dangerous consequence of pride is blindness: it supports and strengthens it, preventing us from finding means that would ease our sorrows and help us heal from vices.

Pride has a thousand faces, but the most subtle and the most deceptive of them is humility.

State

Luxury and excessive sophistication predict certain death for the state, because they indicate that all private individuals care only about their own good, without caring at all about the public good.

Valor

The highest virtue is to do in solitude what people usually dare to do only in the presence of many witnesses.

The highest valor and insurmountable cowardice are extremes that are very rare. Between them, in a vast space, lie all sorts of shades of courage, as varied as human faces and characters. the fear of death to some extent limits valor.

The highest virtue is to do in solitude what men dare to do only in the presence of many witnesses.

For a simple soldier, valor is a dangerous craft, which he undertakes in order to earn food for himself.

Good

Everyone praises their kindness, but no one dares to praise their intelligence.

Where the end of good is, there is the beginning of evil, and where the end of evil is, there is the beginning of good.

Only the person who has the strength of character to sometimes be evil is worthy of praise for kindness; otherwise, kindness most often speaks only of inactivity or lack of will.

Duty

Everyone looks at his debt as an annoying overlord from whom he would like to get rid of.

Dignity

The evil we cause brings upon us less hatred and persecution than our virtues.

The surest sign of innate high virtues is the absence of innate envy.

Friend

It is more shameful not to trust friends than to be deceived by them.

Not noticing the cooling of friends means valuing their friendship little.

Appreciate not what good your friend does, but appreciate his willingness to do good to you.

Friendship

The heat of friendship warms the heart without burning it.

We are so fickle in friendship because it is difficult to know the properties of a person’s soul and easy to know the properties of the mind.

Soul

Love for the soul of the lover means the same as the soul means for the body that it spiritualizes.

A pity

Pity is nothing more than a shrewd anticipation of disasters that could befall us.

Wish

A far-sighted person must determine a place for each of his desires and then implement them in order. Our greed often disrupts this order and forces us to pursue so many goals at the same time that in the pursuit of trifles we miss the essential.

We are afraid of everything, as mortals should be, and we want everything, as if we had been awarded immortality.

Before you strongly desire something, you should inquire whether the current owner of what you want is very happy.

Women

Women can overcome their passion rather than their coquetry.

There are many women in the world who have never had a single love affair in their lives, but there are very few who have only had one.

A woman in love is more likely to forgive a large indiscretion than a small infidelity.

Life

There are situations in life from which you can only get out of it with a fair amount of recklessness.

Moderation in life is similar to abstinence in food: I would eat more, but I’m afraid of getting sick.

Envy

They envy only those with whom they do not hope to be equal.

Our envy always lives longer than the happiness we envy.

Envy is even more incomparable than hatred.

Health

What a boring disease it is to protect your health with an overly strict regime!

Gold

The misconception of the stingy is that they consider gold and silver to be goods, when they are only means for acquiring goods.

Sincerity

The desire to talk about ourselves and show our shortcomings only from the side from which it is most beneficial for us is the main reason for our sincerity.

True

The truth is not as beneficial as its appearance is harmful.

Flattery

No flatterer flatters as skillfully as self-love.

Hypocrisy

Pride never acts as a hypocrite so skillfully as when hiding under the guise of humility.

Dexterity

The highest skill is to know the true price of everything.

Lie

Behind the aversion to lying is often hidden a hidden desire to give weight to our statements and to inspire reverent confidence in our words.

Love

As long as we love, we know how to forgive.

True love is like a ghost: everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

No matter how pleasant love is, its external manifestations still give us more joy than love itself.

There is only one love, but there are thousands of counterfeits.

Love, like fire, knows no rest: it ceases to live as soon as it ceases to hope and fear.

Love covers with its name the most diverse human relationships, supposedly connected with it, although in fact it participates in them no more than rain in the events taking place in Venice.

Many would never fall in love if they had not heard about love.

It is equally difficult to please both someone who loves very much and someone who no longer loves at all.

The one who is cured of love first is always cured more completely.

People

Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their mind.

There are people with merits, but disgusting, while others, although with shortcomings, are sympathetic.

There are people who are destined to be fools: they do stupid things not only of their own free will, but also by the will of fate.

Truly cunning people pretend all their lives that they abhor cunning, but in fact they simply reserve it for exceptional cases that promise exceptional benefits.

Only people with a strong character can be truly soft: for others, apparent softness is in reality just weakness, which easily turns into grumpiness.

No matter how much people boast of the greatness of their deeds, the latter are often the result not of great plans, but simply by chance.

When people love, they forgive.

People who believe in their own merits consider it their duty to be unhappy in order to convince others and themselves that fate has not yet rewarded them what they deserve.

People sometimes call friendship spending time together, mutual assistance in business, and exchange of services. In a word - a relationship where selfishness hopes to gain something.

People could not live in society if they did not lead each other by the nose.

People not only forget benefits and insults, but even tend to hate their benefactors and forgive offenders.

People often boast of the most criminal passions, but no one dares to admit to envy, a timid and bashful passion.

Human affection has the peculiarity of changing with changes in happiness.

Human quarrels would not last so long if all the blame were on one side.

A wise man is happy, content with little, but for a fool nothing is enough; that's why almost all people are unhappy.

Sometimes revolutions take place in society that change both its destinies and the tastes of people.

What people call virtue is usually just a ghost created by their desires and wearing such high name so that they can follow their desires with impunity.

Moderation happy people stems from the peace of mind bestowed by unfailing good fortune.

Although the destinies of people are very different, a certain balance in the distribution of goods and misfortunes seems to equalize them among themselves.

World

The world is ruled by fate and whim.

Youth

Young people change their tastes due to hot blood, but the old man retains his due to habit.

Young men often think that they are natural, when in fact they are simply ill-mannered and rude.

Silence

If great art is required to speak out at the right time, then no small art lies in remaining silent at the right time.

For those who do not trust themselves, the wisest thing to do is to remain silent.

Wisdom

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

It is much easier to show wisdom in the affairs of others than in your own.

Hope

The collapse of all a person's hopes is pleasant to both his friends and his enemies.

Flaws

In everyday life, our shortcomings sometimes seem more attractive than our advantages.

Impotence is the only flaw that cannot be corrected.

Majesty is an incomprehensible quality of the body, invented in order to hide the lack of intelligence.

Feigned importance is a special manner of behaving, invented for the benefit of those who have to hide their lack of intelligence.

If we didn’t have shortcomings, we wouldn’t be so pleased to notice them in our neighbors.

Misfortune

The secret pleasure of knowing that people see how unhappy we are often reconciles us with our misfortunes.

Deception

With our mistrust we justify the deception of others.

Condemnation

We love to judge people for the same things they judge us for.

Peace

Peace cannot be found anywhere for those who have not found it in themselves.

Submission

The highest sanity of the least sane people consists in the ability to obediently follow the reasonable instructions of others.

Vices

Having several vices prevents us from giving in entirely to one of them.

Actions

Our actions seem to be born under a lucky or unlucky star; to her they owe most of the praise or blame that falls to their lot.

Is it true

We should not be offended by people who have hidden the truth from us: we ourselves constantly hide it from ourselves.

Betrayal

Betrayals are most often committed not out of deliberate intention, but out of weakness of character.

Habits

It is easier to neglect profit than to give up a whim.

Our whims are much more bizarre than the whims of fate.

Nature

The wind blows out the candle, but fans the fire.

Nature, in caring for our happiness, not only intelligently arranged the organs of our body, but also gave us pride, apparently in order to save us from the sad consciousness of our imperfection.

Conversations

It is never more difficult to speak well than when it is shameful to remain silent.

Parting

Separation weakens a slight infatuation, but intensifies a greater passion, just as the wind extinguishes a candle, but fans the fire.

Intelligence

What praises are not given to prudence! However, it is not able to protect us even from the most insignificant vicissitudes of fate.

Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their mind.

Jealousy

Jealousy is to some extent reasonable and just, for it wants to preserve our property or what we consider to be such, while envy is blindly indignant at the fact that our neighbors also have some property.

Jealousy feeds on doubt; it dies or goes berserk as soon as doubt turns into certainty.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.

Modesty

Modesty is the worst form of vanity

Death

Few people are given the ability to comprehend what death is; in most cases, people go for it not out of deliberate intention, but out of stupidity and established custom, and people most often die because they cannot resist death.

Neither the sun nor death should be looked at point-blank.

Laughter

It's better to laugh without being happy than to die without laughing.

You can give advice, but you cannot give the mind to use it.

Compassion

Most often, compassion is the ability to see our own in the misfortunes of others; it is a premonition of disasters that can befall us. We help people so that they in turn help us; Thus, our services are reduced simply to the benefits that we do to ourselves in advance.

Justice

The fairness of a moderate judge only testifies to his love for his high position.

For most people, the love of justice is simply the fear of being subjected to injustice.

The love of justice is born of the liveliest anxiety, lest someone take away our property from us; It is this that motivates people to so carefully protect the interests of their neighbors, to respect them so much, and to so diligently avoid unjust actions. This fear forces them to be content with the benefits granted to them by birthright or the whim of fate, and without it, they would constantly raid other people's possessions.

Stubbornness is born of the limitations of our mind: we are reluctant to believe what is beyond our horizons.

Philosophy

Philosophy triumphs over the sorrows of the past and future, but the sorrows of the present triumph over philosophy.

Character

We do not have enough strength of character to obediently follow all the dictates of reason.

Cunning

You can be more cunning than another, but you cannot be more cunning than everyone else.

Human

There is a continuous change of passions in the human heart, and the extinction of one of them almost always means the triumph of the other.

It is much easier to get to know a person in general than someone in particular.

No matter what advantages nature bestows on a person, she can create a hero out of him only by calling on fate to help.

Can a person say with confidence what he wants in the future if he is not able to understand what he wants now?

A man's merits should be judged not by his great merits, but by how he applies them.

Self-love is a person’s love for himself and for everything that constitutes his good.

A person is never as happy or as unhappy as he seems to himself.

A person who is incapable of committing a great crime finds it difficult to believe that others are fully capable of it.

Feelings

It is more difficult to hide our true feelings than to portray non-existent ones.

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Decency is the least important duty, and the most strictly observed of all others.

Only those who deserve it are afraid of contempt.

The thirst to deserve the praise lavished upon us strengthens our virtue; thus, praise of our intelligence, valor and beauty makes us smarter, more valiant and more beautiful.

Grace is to the body what common sense is to the mind.

We are usually driven to make new acquaintances not so much by fatigue from old ones or love of change, but by dissatisfaction that people we know well do not admire us enough, and the hope that people we don’t know much will admire us more.

He who is not capable of great things is scrupulous in detail.

Affectionateness often stems from a vain mind that seeks praise, rather than from a pure heart.

It is not enough to have outstanding qualities, you also need to be able to use them.

We scold ourselves only to be praised.

We are always afraid to show ourselves to the eyes of the one we love, after we happened to be dragged on the side.

Our pride suffers more when our tastes are criticized than when our views are condemned.

It is a mistake to believe that we can do without others, but it is even more mistaken to think that others could not do without us.

Truly dexterous is the one who knows how to hide his dexterity.

Praise is useful if only because it strengthens us in virtuous intentions.

Before we dedicate our hearts to achieving any goal, let us see how happy those who have already achieved that goal are.

The moderation of one whom fate favors is usually either the fear of being ridiculed for arrogance, or the fear of losing what has been acquired.

Moderation is the fear of envy or contempt, which becomes the lot of anyone who is blinded by his own happiness; this is vain boasting of the power of the mind.

To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve our goals. In fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed.

I want to eat and sleep.

: If our philosophers and scientists always played not on the violin of pride, but on the violin of the prophets and apostles, there would, perhaps, be a different knowledge and a different philosophy in the world.

Joachim Rachel:

Knowing what we can know is philosophy; humility and hypothesis, where knowledge ceases, is religion.

Henry Ward Beecher:

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

La Rochefoucauld:

Philosophy triumphs over the sorrows of the past and future, but the sorrows of the present triumph over philosophy.

Feng Yulan:

Philosophy is designed to help people reach higher spheres of existence.

Johann Fichte:

Delve into yourself, turn your gaze away from everything that surrounds you, and direct it inside yourself - this is the first requirement that philosophy sets to its student.

Jubran:

When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she gives birth to a philosopher to speak her mind.

Diogenes:

Philosophy and medicine have made man the most intelligent of animals; fortune telling and astrology - the craziest; superstition and despotism - the most unfortunate.

Diogenes:

Poverty itself paves the way to philosophy; What philosophy tries to convince in words, poverty forces us to implement in practice.

Diogenes:

Philosophy gives you readiness for any turn of fate.

Nicolaus Copernicus:

The duty of the philosopher is to seek truth everywhere and as far as providence allows the human mind to do so.

Thomas Dewar:

A philosopher is one who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

Hegel:

The answer to the questions that philosophy leaves unanswered is that they must be posed differently.

Voltaire:

When the listener does not understand the speaker, and the speaker does not know what he means, this is philosophy.

Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues:

The joke among philosophers is so moderate that it cannot be distinguished from serious reasoning.

Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues:

Clarity is the politeness of philosophy.

William Hazlitt:

A true philosopher is one who knows how to forget about himself.

Albert Camus:

Philosophy is a modern form of shamelessness.

Pierre Buast:

Philosophy cures weaknesses of the heart, but never cures illnesses of the mind.

Henry Thoreau:

Nowadays there are professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.

Andrei Tarkovsky:

Religion, philosophy, art - these three pillars on which the world was supported - man invented in order to symbolically materialize the idea of infinity, to contrast it with a symbol of its possible comprehension.

Francis Bacon:

The thoughts of a philosopher are like stars; they do not give light because they are too sublime.

Epicurus:

In a philosophical discussion, the loser gains more in the sense that he increases knowledge.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

Man better than women philosophizes about the human heart, but a woman reads the hearts of men better than him.

Erich Maria Remarque :

Laziness is the beginning of all happiness and the end of all philosophy.

Bertrand Russell:

The point of philosophy is to start with the most obvious and end with the most paradoxical.

Galileo:

Philosophers fly, and fly only like eagles, but not at all like jackdaws. Eagles are extremely rare, few are seen, even less are heard, while birds flying in flocks fill the sky with piercing cries, make noise when they land, and shit on the ground below them.

Jaroslav Hasek:

The trouble is, when a person suddenly starts philosophizing, it always smells like delirium tremens.

Oscar Wilde:

Philosophy teaches us to be equanimous about the failures of others.

Force modern philosophy not in syllogisms, but in air support.
Victor Pelevin

Philosophy and medicine have made man the most intelligent of animals, fortune telling and astrology the most insane, superstition and despotism the most unfortunate.
Diogenes of Sinope

Triumph over oneself is the crown of philosophy.
Diogenes of Sinope

Philosophers are superior to other people in that if all laws are destroyed, philosophers alone will continue to live.
Aristippus

Superficiality in philosophy inclines the human mind towards atheism, depth - towards religion.
Francis Bacon

Because there can be nothing more beautiful." than achieving truth, then obviously it is worth engaging in philosophy, which is the search for truth.
Pierre Gassendi

First of all, I would like to find out what philosophy is... The word "philosophy" denotes the practice of wisdom and that by wisdom is meant not only prudence in affairs, but also a perfect knowledge of everything that a person can know; This same knowledge, which guides the most, serves the preservation of health, as well as discoveries in all sciences.
Rene Descartes

…Philosophy (since it extends to everything accessible to human cognition) only one thing distinguishes us from savages and barbarians, and each people is the more civilized and educated the better they philosophize; therefore, there is no greater benefit for the state than to have true philosophers.
Rene Descartes

Divine philosophy! You are not harsh and dry, as fools think, but you are musical, like Apollo’s lute! Having once tasted your fruits, you can forever taste at your feast that sweet nectar from which there is no satiety.
John Milton

The philosophers' contempt for wealth was caused by their innermost desire to take revenge on unjust fate for not rewarding them with the blessings of life; it was a secret remedy from the humiliations of poverty, and a roundabout way to the honor usually brought by wealth.
Francois ds La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy triumphs over the sorrows of the past and future, but the sorrows of the present triumph over philosophy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Knowing what we can know is philosophy; humility and hypothesis, where knowledge ceases, is religion.
Joachim Rachel

To mock philosophy is to truly philosophize.
Blaise Pascal

Philosophers say a lot of bad things about clergy, clergy say a lot of bad things about philosophers; but philosophers never killed clergy, and the clergy killed many philosophers.
Denis Diderot

The joke among philosophers is so moderate that it cannot be distinguished from serious reasoning.
Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues

A true philosopher is one who, without boasting, possesses the wisdom that others boast of without possessing it.
Jean Leron d'Alembert

Philosophy is inseparable from coldness. He who cannot be cruel enough towards his own feelings should not philosophize.
Ernst Feuchtersleben

The times of philosophical systems are gone, now are the critics. The destruction of systems has already become a large and magnificent system, although it is like destroyed systems and has no chapters, paragraphs and categories. Improve human life- that's what philosophy is; it may develop in any way it wants, as long as this constitutes its meaning and purpose.
Mikael Lazarevich Nalbandyan

Philosophy must reflect the life of the people, and this life at every step, at every phase must give rise to a new point of view. The systems created in the past were stuck in one place, they had already outlived their usefulness at the moment when their last one was put on paper. Life moves forward, and so does its philosophy. For those who see philosophy only in books with philosophical titles, what significance can philosophy have in the life of some common people? Blind people! His philosophy stems from his own life. As life is, so is its philosophy.
Mikael Lazarevich Nalbandyan

No one can escape the impressions of his surroundings; and what they call new philosophy or new religion, it is usually not so much the creation of new ideas as a new direction given to ideas already common among modern thinkers.
Henry Thomas Buckle

The philosophy of each specialty is based on the connection of the latter with other specialties, at the points of contact of which it must be sought.
Henry Thomas Buckle

But why change the processes of nature? There may be a deeper philosophy than we have ever dreamed of - a philosophy that reveals the secrets of nature, but does not change its course by penetrating it.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

He who values little things for their own sake is an empty man; he who values them for the sake of the conclusions that can be drawn from them, or for the sake of the benefits that can be obtained from them, is a philosopher.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

Ancient philosophy was a mill, not a road. It consisted of questions that revolved in a circle, of contradictions that always started over again. There was enormous tension and no progress at all.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

The new philosophy is a philosophy that never rests, never reaching its goal, perfection. Its law is progress. The area that was not visible yesterday is today the scene of its action, tomorrow it will be its starting point.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

According to Plato, man is created for philosophy; according to Bacon, philosophy is for man.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

A philosophy that can teach a person to be completely happy while experiencing unbearable pain is much better than a philosophy that softens pain... A philosophy that fights greed is much better than a philosophy that develops laws for the protection of property.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Philosophers are nothing more than blacksmiths preparing a plough. How many things have to happen before the bread can be brought to the mouth.
Karl Ludwig Berne

Philosophical arguments that cannot be understood by every educated person are not worth the printing ink.
Ludwig Büchner

The answer to questions that philosophy leaves unanswered is that they must be posed differently.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy is the processing of concepts.
Johann Friedrich Herbart

Philosophy can be nothing other than the consciousness that the empirical sciences obtain about themselves.
Ferdinand Lassalle

Every philosophy, or science of science, is criticism. The idea of philosophy is a diagram of the Future.
Novalis

Philosophy - homesickness, to be at home everywhere.
Novalis

Do you think that philosophy will not, like a true work of art, be an incomparable standard by which everyone can measure his own height? Or maybe you assume that it will be a simple calculation problem that even the most limited and stupid mind can do?
Arthur Schopenhauer

De La Rochefoucauld Francois (1613-1680)- French writer-moralist, Duke, belonged to one of the most noble families in France.

“Maxims” was first published in 1665. In the preface, La Rochefoucauld wrote: “I present to the readers this image of the human heart, called “Maxims and Moral Reflections.” It may not please everyone, for some will probably think it is too much like the original and too little flattering. Let the reader remember that the prejudice against “Maxim” precisely confirms them, let him be imbued with the consciousness that the more passionately and cunningly he argues with them, the more immutably he proves their rightness.

Maxims

Our virtues are most often
elaborately disguised vices

What we take for virtue often turns out to be a combination of selfish desires and actions, skillfully selected by fate or our own cunning; so, for example, sometimes women are chaste, and men are valiant, not at all because chastity and valor are actually characteristic of them.

No flatterer flatters as skillfully as selfishness.

No matter how many discoveries have been made in the land of selfishness, there are still plenty of unexplored lands left there.

Not a single cunning man can compare in cunning with pride.

The longevity of our passions is no more dependent on us than the longevity of life.

Passion often turns an intelligent person into a fool, but no less often makes fools.

Great historical deeds, which blind us with their brilliance and are interpreted by politicians as the result of great plans, are most often the fruit of the play of whims and passions. Thus, the war between Augustus and Anthony, which is explained by their ambitious desire to rule the world, was perhaps caused simply by jealousy.

The passions are the only speakers whose arguments are always convincing; their art is born, as it were, from nature itself and is based on immutable laws. Therefore, a simple-minded person, but carried away by passion, can convince more quickly than an eloquent, but indifferent person.

Passions are characterized by such injustice and such self-interest that it is dangerous to trust them and one should beware of them even when they seem quite reasonable.

There is a continuous change of passions in the human heart, and the extinction of one of them almost always means the triumph of the other.

Our passions are often the product of other passions that are directly opposite to them: stinginess sometimes leads to wastefulness, and wastefulness to stinginess; people are often persistent out of weakness of character and courageous out of cowardice.

No matter how hard we try to hide our passions under the guise of piety and virtue, they always peek through this veil.

Our pride suffers more when our tastes are criticized than when our views are condemned.

People not only forget benefits and insults, but even tend to hate their benefactors and forgive offenders. The need to repay good and avenge evil seems to them like slavery, which they do not want to submit to.

The mercy of the powerful is most often just a cunning policy, the goal of which is to win the love of the people.

Although everyone considers mercy a virtue, it is sometimes generated by vanity, often by laziness, often by fear, and almost always by both. The moderation of happy people stems from the calmness bestowed by constant good fortune.

Moderation is the fear of envy or contempt, which becomes the lot of anyone who is blinded by his own happiness; this is vain boasting of the power of the mind; finally, the moderation of people who have reached the heights of success is the desire to appear above their fate.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortune of our neighbor.

The equanimity of the sages is just the ability to hide their feelings in the depths of their hearts.

The equanimity that those sentenced to death sometimes show, as well as the contempt for death, only speaks of the fear of looking it straight in the eyes; therefore, it can be said that both are for their minds like a blindfold for their eyes.

Philosophy triumphs over the sorrows of the past and future, but the sorrows of the present triumph over philosophy.

Few people are given the ability to comprehend what death is; in most cases, it is not done out of deliberate intention, but out of stupidity and established custom, and people most often die because they cannot resist death.

When great men finally bend under the weight of long-term adversity, they show that before they were supported not so much by the strength of spirit as by the strength of ambition, and that heroes differ from ordinary people only by greater vanity.

It is more difficult to behave with dignity when fate is favorable than when it is hostile.

Neither the sun nor death should be looked at point-blank.

People often boast of the most criminal passions, but no one dares to admit to envy, a timid and bashful passion.

The evil we cause brings upon us less hatred and persecution than our virtues.

To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve our goal; in fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed.

If we didn’t have shortcomings, we wouldn’t be so pleased to notice them in our neighbors.

Jealousy feeds on doubt; it dies or goes berserk as soon as doubt turns into certainty.

Pride always compensates for its losses and loses nothing, even when it abandons vanity.

If we were not overcome by pride, we would not complain about the pride of others.

Pride is common to all people; the only difference is how and when they manifest it.

Nature, in caring for our happiness, not only intelligently arranged the organs of our body, but also gave us pride, apparently in order to save us from the sad consciousness of our imperfection.

It is not kindness, but pride that usually prompts us to admonish people who have committed wrongdoings; we reproach them not so much in order to correct them, but in order to convince them of our own infallibility.

We promise in proportion to our calculations, and we fulfill our promises in proportion to our fears.

Selfishness speaks all languages and plays any role - even the role of selflessness.

Self-interest blinds some, opens the eyes of others.

He who is too zealous in small things usually becomes incapable of great things.

We do not have enough strength of character to obediently follow all the dictates of reason.

A person often thinks that he is in control of himself, when in fact something is in control of him; While he strives for one goal with his mind, his heart imperceptibly carries him towards another.

Strength and weakness of the spirit are simply incorrect expressions: in reality there is only a good or bad state of the organs of the body.

Our whims are much more bizarre than the whims of fate.

The attachment or indifference of philosophers to life was reflected in the peculiarities of their selfishness, which can no more be disputed than peculiarities of taste, like a penchant for some dish or color.

We evaluate everything that fate sends us depending on our mood.

What gives us joy is not what surrounds us, but our attitude towards the environment, and we are happy when we have what we love, and not what others consider worthy of love.

A person is never as happy or as unhappy as he seems to himself.

People who believe in their own merits consider it their duty to be unhappy in order to convince others and themselves that fate has not yet given them what they deserve.

What could be more crushing to our complacency than the clear understanding that today we condemn things that yesterday we approved.

Although the destinies of people are very different, a certain balance in the distribution of goods and misfortunes seems to equalize them among themselves.

No matter what advantages nature bestows on a person, she can create a hero out of him only by calling on fate to help.

Hatred towards people who have fallen into mercy is caused by a thirst for this very mercy. The annoyance at its absence is softened and pacified by contempt for all who use it; we deny them respect because we cannot take away what attracts the respect of everyone around them.

In order to strengthen their position in the world, people diligently pretend that it has already been strengthened.

No matter how much people boast of the greatness of their deeds, the latter are often the result not of great plans, but of simple chance.

Our actions seem to be born under a lucky or unlucky star; to her they owe most of the praise or blame that falls to their lot.

There are no circumstances so unfortunate that a smart person cannot derive some benefit from them, but there are no circumstances so happy that a reckless person cannot turn them against himself.

Fate arranges everything for the benefit of those whom it protects.

Anyone for whom the future seems difficult and painful must be alive when these adversities can strike. (Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus))

If you want to be an optimist, don't look into the future. (Sergey Skotnikov)

Why, says the egoist, will I work for posterity when it has done absolutely nothing for me? - You are unfair, madman! Posterity has already done for you that you, bringing the past closer to the present and future, can at will consider yourself: a baby, a youth to an old man. (Kozma Prutkov)

I never think about the future. It comes on its own soon enough. (Albert Einstein)

Philosophy triumphs over the sorrows of the past and future, but the sorrows of the present triumph over philosophy. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

What are our years! We still have everything ahead! ()

It seems to many that our offspring are a beast of burden that is ready to shoulder any load. (Benjamin Disraeli)

It's not scary to go out the window. I'm scared of what might happen after. ()

The future has many names:
The weak have failure,
A coward has the unknown
The brave have a chance. ()

Until tomorrow comes, you will not understand how good you had today. (Leonardo Louis Levinson)

In order to live in the hope of a bright and wonderful future for humanity and work for this distant prospect, you need to believe in humanity. (Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov)

It is impossible to deduce future events from present events. Superstition is the belief in such a causal relationship. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Immediate opportunity and probability encourage a person to encroach even on what he did not even dare to think about. (Thomas More)

If it’s very good, it will soon be even better. ()

The future is an aerial silk, on which the imagination embroiders golden patterns of hopes, and life, with rough tailor's scissors, cuts everything into gray, worthless shreds. (N.Vekshin)

Where there are no pressing problems, there is no future. (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)

You can’t dive into the past, you can’t jump into the future, so you’re hanging out in the present. (Mikhail Mamchich)

The future is hidden from us. But does the astronomer who calculates the date think so? solar eclipse? (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Those who do not think about distant difficulties will certainly face near-term troubles. (Confucius (Kun Tzu))

Think about the future, remember the past, but live in the present. (Ilya Shevelev)

It is best to believe in the future blindly. (Anatoly Ras)

That the sun will rise in the morning is a hypothesis; which means that we don’t know whether it will rise or not. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

The only thing that makes life possible is the eternal, unbearable uncertainty: not knowing what will happen next. (Ursula Le Guin)

There are not many days allotted to us so that we can allow the future to devour the present. (Leonid Solovyov)

Posterity will reward everyone according to their deserts. (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)

The coming of an hour for which you did not expect will be pleasant. (Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus))

The future contains the shortcomings of the present. (Denis Igorevich Gorodny)

Those who look back on their past do not deserve the future. (Oscar Wilde)

The sun is fierce, the sun is threatening
God in the spaces of walking
Crazy face
Burn the real sun,
In the name of the future,
But remember the past (Gumelev)

Strategy is necessary because the future is unpredictable. (R. Waterman)