Empedocles
At one time through Love all things came together into one, at another time through Strife's hatred they are borne each of them apart.
Happy is the person who has gained the riches of divine wisdom; wretched he who has a dim opinion of the Gods in his heart.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
For already I have been born as a boy and a girl and a bush and a bird and a dumb fish leaping out of the sea.
Ennius
The Roman state survives by its ancient customs and its manhood.
Epictetus
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.
Happiness comes from understanding one basic principle. Some things are within our control and some things are not. Our opinions, ambitions, desires and aversions are in our control. We can change the contents of our inner character. Our body, wealth, fame, and social status are not in our control. They are external to us and not our concern.
Although we cannot choose what happens to us, we can choose how we respond.
You are a fragment torn from God. You have a portion of him within you.
Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see blame as foolishness.
Epicurus
Through love of true philosophy every desturbing and troublesome desire is ended.
What is food to one creature, is poison to another.
The wise seek neither to escape from life nor death, for life does not trouble them and death does not seem an evil. Just as with food, they don't choose the largest portion, but the most delicious. They do not desire the longest period of time, but pluck the most pleasant fruit.
No one when he sees evil deliberately chooses it, but is enticed by it as being good in comparison with a greater evil.
Frugality too has a limit, and the man who disregards it is in like case with him who errs through excess.
It is vain to ask of the Gods what a man is capable of supplying for himself.
That which is finite has an end. That which has an end can be perceived from a point external to itself. But the universe cannot be perceived from a point external to itself. Therefore, the universe has no end, it must be infinite.
You must be the slave of philosophy if you would enjoy true freedom.
Meditate upon death. It is a splendid thing to know well how to die.
The Fourfold remedy: Nothing to fear in God. Death is not worth a worry. Good can be attain, and evil can be endured.
Epaminondus
You Thebans will never be equal in war to the Athenians unless you bring the Parthenon and the Popylaea to Thebes. Beautiful art produces beautiful character.
Eudamidas
When asked what purpose they had in sacrificing to the Muses before their ventures, Eudamidas said, "So that our actions may attract good reports."
Euripides
Judge a tree by it's fruit, not it's leaves.
In this world, it seems, second thoughts are best.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Talk sense to a fool, and he calls you foolish.
Humility, a sense of reverence before the Sons of Heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest. These are best.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
When good men die their goodness does not parish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.
The beliefs we have received from our ancestors - beliefs as old as time - cannot be destroyed by any argument, nor by any ingenuity the mind can invent.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Nothing have I found stronger than Necessity.
Temperance is the greatest gift of the Gods.
The Gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
No man in the whole world is free. Not one. Slaves all to what they own or want.
Blessed, blessed are those who know the Mysteries of Dionysos. Blessed is he who hallows his life in the worship of God, he whom the spirit of God possesseth, who is one with those who belong to the holy body of God. Blessed are the dancers and those who are purified, who dance on the hill the holy dances of God. Blessed are they who keep the rites of Kybele the Mother. Blessed are the thyrsos-bearers, those who weild in their hands the holy wand of God. Blessed are those who wear the crown of the ivy of God. Blessed, blessed are they: Dionysos is their God!
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