"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."

-- Epictetus

#Philosophical Quotes #Silence Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical matrix or trope, the sounds of the words arranged in a way that heightens perception, a tunefulness that more clearly defines and transfers the feeling I'm after to the reader.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.”
“You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.”
“War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!”
“Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
“You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences.”
“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness”
“In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Chrysippus
Philosopher
Diogenes
Philosopher
Epicurus
Philosopher
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Socrates
Philosopher
Zeno of Citium