Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
Author: Plutarch
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony must investigate discord.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony must investigate discord.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief – the other contempt.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief – the other contempt.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.