Our life is a pilgrimage

To God alone be the glory

My heart I offer to you, Lord, promptly and sincerely

No sign is so clear that it does not also carry some obscurity

Even among barbarians, pride sometimes yields to wisdom, and Ares stands in awe of the Muses.

-- Posidonius

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few.

-- Pythagoras

I know that I do not know.

-- Plato

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-- Laozi

Those who fully develop their mind know their nature. Knowing their nature, they know Heaven.

-- Mencius

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza