Philo Quotes

“When your friends act like something is amiss,
analyse if there’s something you’ve been remiss.
When your family has been good to you,
analyse so you may them continue.

For each failure, analyse why the fail;
aim’s not to blame, but to adjust your sail.
For each success, analyse why the hit,
aim’s not to gloat, but to pave a repeat.”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“How we envy other people’s success,
their basking in great comfort and riches;
but we never check the hell they went through,
the pains and hardships we’d dare not go through.”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“Don’t love so you too be loved in return,
nor help since an award is there to earn.
To love and to help are human duties—
demanded by Nature with no bounties.”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“Today is worth all days of tomorrow;
live each day like there is none to follow.
True joy is not when all your dreams come true;
true joy is today when life’s yet with you.

Don’t miss the glory of all days that come;
welcome each day with great enthusiasm.
Dreams of tomorrow are yet to come true;
seize every moment that each day gives you.”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“Truly, you don’t work for the company;
rather for yourself and your family.
Laze not, for you fool not the company,
but rather yourself and your family.”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“In our world, who are right and who are wrong?
Are they right who with the norm go along?
Are they right who wield the power among?
Are they right whose group is largest and strong?

They that can bring smiles to many are right;
they that can grow food from the land are right;
they that can heal ills, pains, and wounds are right;
they that can liberate the poor are right.”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“Solomon sayde: better to dwell in emptie earth than to dwell with a chydynge and an angrye woman; Philo said the just man is not he who will not offend but he who could offend but does not wish to; Socrates saw his friend, who was rushing to artists to order his image be carved upon rock, and he said to him, you are rushing for a stone to become like yourself, why not take care that you do not become like a stone; Philip II of Macedon assigned a certain person to serve amongst other judges when he learned the judge was coloring his hair and beard, and he barred him from judging, saying: yf you are not true to your hayrie lockes, how can you be a true judge unto people, Solomon sayde: There be thre thinges too wonderfull for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowledge: The waye of an aegle in the ayre, the waye of a serpent over the stone, the waye of a shippe in the see, and the waye of a man wyth a yonge woman. Solomon did not understand this. Christofer did not understand this. Life would prove that Arseny did not understand this, either.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus