Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonabl….
Nature and wisdom never are at strife..
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little….
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wrong….
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even ….
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independent….
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holdi….
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human..
He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright..
Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon th….
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty..
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse..
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them i….
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures..
I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing..
Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied..
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself..
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless..
Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the….
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length..
After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your a….