Occupation: Poet Birth: 522 Bc Death: 443 Bc
Even genius is tied to profit..
Words have a longer life than deeds..
The test of any man lies in action..
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God..
Learn what you are and be such..
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light..
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind..
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, th….
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse..
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest..
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence..
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things..
A good deed hidden in silence dies..
War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it..
Even success softens not the heart of the envious..
Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of pri….
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes..
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us..
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is noth….