Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses.".
When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion..
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits..
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable..
Philosophy is an act of living..
Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only"..
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young..
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.".
Words will build no walls..
They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men..
So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves….
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy..
What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water..
Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities..
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice..
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he ….
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies..
Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consi….
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own..
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marr….
But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, ….