Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had o….
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing th….
A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, ….
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days..
Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from t….
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and n….
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall..
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men..
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well..
He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself.
If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance….
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion r….
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature..
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; bu….
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him….
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush..
As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstanc….
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others..
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts no….
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance..
When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back..