He found this book quite interesting, though, he hasn’t managed to finish it, but he has already learned quite a lot. The book is relating philosophy to practical management. It is divided into a few parts, it talks about Truth, Beauty, Goodness and Unity, and how these 4 elements help to cultivate the right culture for future success. Those proverbs are as below:
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous
– Aristotle
Nothing is simpler than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense
- Dean W.R. INGE
The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit
– Geogre B. Courtelyou
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it
– Carl Gustav Jung
Things have their seasons, and even certain kinds if eminence go in and out of style. But wisdom has an advantage; she is eternal.
– Baltasar Gracian
The true medicine of the mind is philosophy
– Cicero
To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future
– Plutarch
Philosophy is good advice
– Seneca
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune
– Juvenel
The mark of wisdom is to read aright the present, and to march with the occasion
– Homer
He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds
– Saint Gregory
Some wisdom must be learned from one who is wise
– Euripides
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of other avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money’s easy to make if its money you want. But with few exception people don’t want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration
– John-Steinbeck
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many amid great affluence are utterly miserable
– Publius Cornelius Tacitus
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind
– Cicero
A life at ease is a difficult pursuit
– William Cowper
Happiness is not a station that you arrive at, but a manner of traveling
– Margaret Lee Runbeck
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day
– E.B. White
It is only well with me if I have a chisel in my hand
– Michelangelo
Taste the joy that springs from labor
– Henry Wards worth Longfellow
The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth
– Epictetus
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth
– William Hazlitt
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it
– Confucius
I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed
– Marcus Aurelius
If they have more respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are
– John Gardner
Veracity is the heart of morality
– T.H. Huxley
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another because they are all operating according to a common set of ethical norms, doing business costs less
– Francis Fukuyama
Nothing is swifter than rumor
– Virgil
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing
– Thomas Paine
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use
– Ben Johnson
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of demons
– Aldous Huxley
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse
– Edmund Burke
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness
– Tennessee Williams
Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness
– Confucius
A man is but what he knoweth
– Francis Bacon
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest
– Benjamin Franklin
Only the educated are free
– Epictetus
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