Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes..
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt..
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them..
Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles..
Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When ….
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus ….
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear n….
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered..
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose ….
For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud….
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty..
We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting….
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech..
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is..
When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so tr….
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty..
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.".
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur….
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine..
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life..
Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses..