Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
Instead of using medicine, better fast today..
Philosophy is the art of living..
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple ri….
The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches..
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish..
Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he ….
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised..
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy..
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his….
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship wit….
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education..
Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult..
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corrup….
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence..
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars)..
Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common lan….
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God..
The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart..
He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be dest….
Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce..