Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this sto….
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things..
Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and t….
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue..
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist..
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp..
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.".
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war..
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as….
There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue..
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is tempe….
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune..
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in….
When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something..
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price..
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them..
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashful….
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical ra….
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing..
What can they suffer that do not fear to die?.