Occupation: Author Birth: 620 Bc Death: 564 Bc
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance..
Kindness is more persuasive than force..
We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are..
If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter..
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies..
We can easily represent things as we wish them to be..
It is possible to have too much of a good thing..
Clumsy jesting is no joke..
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions..
Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror..
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues..
Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing..
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction..
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either..
We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him..
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen ….
Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature.
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune..
Only cowards insult dying majesty..
Great determination can overcome most odds..