Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment..
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born in….
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend..
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man..
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors..
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting..
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then….
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach..
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others..
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into..
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors..
A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line..
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging..
Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talen….
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, somethi….
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous..
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look d….
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's pla….
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that ….
Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My couns….
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and swea….