16 quotes found
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
“Thou hast added insult to injury.”
“There is truth in wine and children”
“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
“An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.”
“Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.”
“Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.”
“O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. ...”
“And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.”
“Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”
“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.”
“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.”
“Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.”
“In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.”
“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...”
“Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”
