Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
Time is the wisest of all counselors..
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your ….
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was t….
That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far..
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service..
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration..
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good ….
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion..
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds..
Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, whi….
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness t….
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the….
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well..
When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedae….
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, ….
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.
A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such streng….
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade..
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth..
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little….
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses..