Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them..
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect ….
Painting is silent poetry..
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected..
Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does..
Silence is an answer to a wise man..
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others..
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp..
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for..
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave..
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice..
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his ….
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual r….
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are ind….
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven..
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!.
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the gr….
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of d….
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation..
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse..