“It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.”
Seneca · Moral essays
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 7
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche · Ecce Homo, 1888
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
Rick Blaine · Casablanca, 1942
“You come to me and you say Don Corleone, give me justice. But you don't ask with respect.”
Vito Corleone · The Godfather, 1972
“Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
Vito Corleone · The Godfather, attributed in the film's world
“Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.”
Jimmy Conway · Goodfellas, 1990
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
Michael Corleone · The Godfather Part II, 1974
“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
Vito Corleone · The Godfather, 1972
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Jimi Hendrix
