Occupation: Author Birth: 620 Bc Death: 564 Bc
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales..
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in….
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny..
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow..
Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today..
Conceit may bring about one's own downfall..
Labour is the source of every blessing..
What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh..
False friends leave you in times of trouble..
Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails..
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds..
The gods help them who help themselves..
Every one is more or less master of his own fate..
Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long..
Implementation beats oration..
Acquaintance softens prejudice..
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed..
Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it..
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others..
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities..
He that has many friends, has no friends..