“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”

-Paracelsus

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

-Aristotle

“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

-Epicurus

“Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.”

-Andrew Bernstein

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

-Aristotle

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

-Plato

“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

-Socrates

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”

-Seneca the Younger

“He was a wise man who invented beer.”

-Plato

“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.”

-Mencius

“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.”

-Sophocles

“Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.”

-Thomas Sowel

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.”

-Lillian Dickson

“Depression is the inability to construct a future”

-Rollo May

“Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.”

-Leibniz

“If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.”

-Mencius

“Religion is the opiate of the people.”

-Karl Marx

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

-Epicurus

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”

-Abraham Maslow

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

-Confucius

“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”

-Robert Green Ingersoll

“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

-Socrates

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

-Confucius

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

-Ivan Panin

“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”

-Sophocles