A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
Call no man happy before he dies.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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