65 quotes found
“The destiny of man is in his own soul.”
“It is better to be envied than pitied.”
“Great things are won by great dangers.”
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.”
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
“He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek god...”
“In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.”
“When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possibl...”
“If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decis...”
“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn't write down what he has learned and exp...”
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
“Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word...”
“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory c...”
“If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitablyafter careful considerations ...”
“Such people, while useful, even agreeable, to others, are, if truth be told, frequently unhappylonely in fact. Yes, they seek out others, and it may even seem to them that in a certain country or c...”
“[] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small space of this beautiful but congested city intersected two great conflicts of the contemporary wo...”
“The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two ...”
“It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.”
“The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot determines offices, power is held accountable, and deliberation is ...”
“It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but the...”
“Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence...”
“Force has no place where there is need of skill.”
“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.”
“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.”
