Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
The great god Pan is dead..
For the wise man, every day is a festival..
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better..
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly..
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality..
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled..
Barba non facit philosophum.
From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules.".
A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need..
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun..
Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] t….
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance….
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it..
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which ena….
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world..
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some smal….
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity..
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly..
Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me.
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all th….
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk..