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

Callimachus 250 B.C., Greek Poet, Grammarian

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.

Catullus BC 87-54, Roman Lyric 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.

Claudius Claudianus 340-410, Egyptian Latin Poet

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.


Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

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

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius Caecus

Love of money is the mother of all evils.

Diogenes the Cynic

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

Critias

Is not living at all not better than living badly?

Critias

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

Crates

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Critias

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius Caecus

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

Claudius Claudianus

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A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

Claudius Claudianus

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Claudius Claudianus

To little men, gods send little things.

Callimachus

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Callimachus

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Diogenes Of Sinope

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Diogenes Of Sinope

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Diogenes Of Sinope

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Diogenes Of Sinope

Wisdom serves as a brake on the youth, as comfort to the old, as wealth to the poor, and an adornment to the rich.

Diogenes the Cynic

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Is not living at all not better than living badly?

Critias

Insult shames the mocker, not the one who receives it.

Diogenes the Cynic

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Diogenes the Cynic

Keeping quiet is how you learn to listen; listening is how you learn to speak; speaking is how you learn to be silent.

Diogenes the Cynic

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Diogenes Of Sinope

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Diogenes Of Sinope
For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.
I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.
The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

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