Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history..
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain….
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love..
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than an….
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door..
When the candles are out all women are fair..
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity..
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is..
Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead..
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them..
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By….
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves.
But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any….
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune..
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit..
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring i….
Reason speaks and feeling bites.
Character is long-standing habit..
Character is inured habit..
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration..
When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches ….