Callimachus 250 B.C., Greek Poet, Grammarian

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

Catullus BC 87-54, Roman Lyric Poet

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.

Claudius Claudianus 340-410, Egyptian Latin Poet

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Chilo 560 BC, Greek Sage

Speak no evil of the dead.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Critias c.460-403 BC, Athenian Orator, Politician, Pupil of Socrates

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Appius Claudius Caecus

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

Diogenes Athe Cynic

Love of money is the mother of all evils.

Crates

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.