A Quote by Gautama Buddha
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
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Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.
Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
No man is an island unto himself.
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
