It is better to be envied than pitied..

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks..

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied..

Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is….

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time..

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate..

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change..

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods..

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the mo….

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the ….

My men have become women, but the women men..

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing..

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterl….

In soft regions are born soft men..

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid payin….

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by i….

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long..

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever..

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself..

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year..

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, ….