Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot..
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow..
What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker..
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greates….
The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those ….
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely….
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician..
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flat….
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals ….
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye..
Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both ….
When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a ma….
The belly has no ears..
To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begin….
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades..
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating wha….
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing….
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would ….
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of….
When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak….