Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

A lie cannot live.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.