Chinese saying

The man, that slanders me behind my back - is afraid of me, the man that praises me in the eyes - despises me!


Confucius (551 BC-479 BC)

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from making nests in your hair.


Confucius (551 BC-479 BC)

Faced with what is right, and to leave it undone, is a lack of courage or of principle.


Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.


Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Most of the suffering in our lives is caused not by those whom we hate but from those whom we love.


Latin saying

There are obstacles for the strong and steady man.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

Any redundancy is vice!


Publilius Syrus (N/A ~90 BC ~ 35 BC)

Excessive nobleness to a brazen-faced person is harmful.


Socrates (469 BC-399 BC)

We do not live to eat, but eat to live!


Sophocles (496 BC–406 BC)

It is one thing to talk much, but totally other is to say something.


Vangelia Gushterova - Vanga (1911-1996)

One should want less to be able to pay the price!


Visarion Belinski (1811-1848)

Every extreme is the sister of limitations.


Visarion Belinski (1811-1848)

Of all human passions, aside from the selfishness, the strongest and the most ferocious is the love of power.   We can probably state that no other passion caused to the humanity so much suffering and blood as the love of power.


Visarion Belinski (1811-1848)

To think logically and to think truthfully are two different things.