Quotes about Reflection

Nothing is so conducive to spiritual growth as this capacity for logical and accurate analysis of everything that happens to us.

It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong. And this happens, if when they do wrong it occurs to thee that they are kinsmen, and that they do wrong through ignorance and unintentionally, and that soon both of you will die; and above all, that the wrong-doer has done thee no harm, for he has not made thy ruling faculty worse than it was before.

Look within. Within is the fountain of Good, ready always to well forth if thou wilt alway delve.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here

When near his death, being asked by the tribune for the watchword, he said, Go to the rising sun, for I am setting.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

The essence of Ciceronian philosophy is a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of human beings to one another and to the universe that encompasses them.

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

Some people will say that memory fades away as the years pass. Of course it does if you don't exercise it or aren't very bright to begin with. -- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.