Lucius Accius
Let them hate, as long as they fear.
Aeschylus
There's nothing certain in man's life except this: That he must lose it.
Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.
Honour thy father and thy mother stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
But Justice turns the balance scales, sees that we suffer and we suffer and we learn. And we will know the future when it comes.
For somehow this is tyranny's disease - to trust no friends.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Time, as he grows old, teaches all.
Wisdom comes through suffering.
It is in the charactter of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Only when a man is dead should you call him happy.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
What is pleasanter than the bond of host and guest?
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Aesop
The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep's clothing.
Appearances can be deceiving.
Do not count your chickens before they're hatched.
I am sure the grapes are sour.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Slow and steady wins the race.
How might one escape thee, O life, without dying? for thy sorrows are numberless, and neither escape nor endurance is easy. For sweet indeed are thy beautiful things of nature, earth, sea, stars, the orbs of moon and sun; but all else is fears and pains, and though one have a good thing befal him, there succeeds it an answering Nemesis.
Agesilaus
One time Agesilaus watched as a mouse was being pulled from its hole by a small boy. When the mouse turned around, bit the hand of its captor and escaped, he pointed this out to those present and said: "When the tiniest creature defends itself like this against agressors, what ought men to do, you reckon?"
A commander should outclass his troops not in fastidiousness and high living, but in stamina and courage.
When asked what gain the laws of Lycurgus had brought Sparta, he said, "Contempt for pleasures."
Asked once how far Sparta's borders stretched, Agesilaus brandished his spear, and said, "As far as this can reach."
Be rich not in possessions, but in courage and merit.
One may most surely earn the esteem of the people by the best words and the finest actions.
A general needs to show daring towards his opponents, goodwill towards his subordinates and a cool head in crises.
Only the inteligent are brave.
Alexander the Great
When asked, How did you acquire such a mighty kingdom in spite of your youth?" He replied, "By winning over enemies and making them friends, and by obliging friends through beneficience towards them."
Alkman
No mortal can possibly escape his destined death, even if he comes from immortal stock.
There is vengeance of the Gods.
The path is narrow, and necessity pitiless.
Who with ease could read the mind of another man?
Trial, you know, is the start of wisdom.
Anaxandridas
When someone asked why Spartiates confidently faced danger, Anaxandridas replied: "Because we practice proper respect for life, not fear of it like the rest of mankind."
Anaxis
The grapevine bears three bunches of grapes: first, a bunch of enjoyment; second, a bunch of intoxication; and third, a bunch of folly.
Antiphanes
We must have richness of soul.
Apollonius of Tyana
The best prayer that a man can utter is: O ye Gods, give me whatever is fitting for me.
Why should any honest man have need of a Priest? The Gods need no mediator to make them kind to him.
Apuleius
I approached the boundary of death, and treading upon Proserpine's threshold, I was carried through all the elements; after which I returned. At dead of night I saw the sun flashing with bright effulgence; I approached close to the Gods Above and the Gods Below and I worshipped them face to face.
Archilochus
I will make nothing better by crying, I will make nothing worse by giving myself what entertainment I can.
The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog only one. But one good one.
O Zeus, our father Zeus, for you control the sky, you oversee the works of men, the right acts and the wrong they do; so yours to judge the crimes and punishments of all creatures.
One main thing I understand, to come back with deadly evil at the man who does me wrong.
Different things warm different hearts.
For honor and glory bedeck the man who fights for his land, his children, his wedded wife.
Aristippus
Not he who abstains, but he who enjoys without being carried away, is master of his pleasures.
Aristotle
No one ever creates anything great without a dash of madness.
Every art and investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good: hence it has been well said that the Good is That at which all things aim.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
For the steading takes precedence among our physical necessities, and the woman among our free associates. It is, therefore, one of the tasks of Homecraft to set in order the relation between man and woman; in other words, to see that it is what it ought to be.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand-fold.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its height.
Education graces the wealth of the rich, and veils the poverty of the poor.
There are four excellences of the soul, with four equivalent excellences of the body. Wisdom in the soul has its physical equivalent in perfection. Justice in the soul has its physical equivalent in beauty. Courage in the soul has its physical equivalent in strength. Modesty in the soul has its physical equivalent in health.
The soul is not within the body; rather, the body is within the soul, because soul is more extensive than the body and greater in magnitude.
Do not crave the world, for you only stay in it a short while; how long can you possibly live?
We must not recoil with childish aversion from the examination of the humbler animals. Every realm of nature is marvelous and all will reveal to us something beautiful.
A malicious person is an enemy to himself, so how can he be a friend to another?
When you want to know if a man is master of his desires, then observe how much control he has over what he says.
Habituate the self to the humanities, for from them and in them are seen the wonders of thought and the subtleties of reflection.
Rhetoric is putting much meaning in a few words, as opposed to putting little meaning in many words.
Asked what is most difficult, Aristotle said - "Silence."
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We make war that we may live in peace.
So poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history, for while poetry is concerned with universal truth, history treats of particular facts.
God and nature do nothing in vain.
All men naturally desire to know.
There should be no enmity between seekers after truth.
Arrian
I hold that no mighty deeds, not even conquering the whole world, is of any good unless the man has learned mastery of himself.
Athenian oath, before Plataea
I shall fight as long as I live, and shall not consider being alive more important than being free.
Marcus Aurelius
Who lives with the Gods? Those who are always satisfied with what has been assigned for them and obey the promptings of their spirit.
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retrest than his own soul.
Either instruct them or endure them.
Nay, but there are Gods, and they do concern themselves with out affairs.
Author Unknown
He who enters the incense-filled temple must be holy; and holiness is to have a pure mind.
He who never betrays one he has made a friend shall be given high exaltation among people and Gods. Such is my own belief.
Underneath every stone there lies hidden a scorpion, dear friend. Take care, or he will sting you. All concealment is treachery.
I was not. I was. I am not. I do not care.
When one God presses hard, another brings relief.
A Greek never entered a wood without expecting to meet a God in it.
Only a dog barks guests away from his own door.
Not everything which the law allows is honorable.
Not of good-will has Fortune advanced thee; but that she may show her omnipotence, even down to thee.
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