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Now stop your dancing; you wouldn’t come out and dance when I played to you.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

The longer the span of someone’s existence, the more certain he is to see and suffer much that he would rather have been spared.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

I believe that the women were called by the Dodonaeans “doves” because they were barbarians, and so they seemed to the people of Dodona to talk like birds.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

What the History is really about lies behind this: man, giant-sized, seen against the background of the entire world, universalized in his conflict with destiny, the gods, and the cosmic order. The medium that is most fertile in showing the true nature of reality is the human mind, remembering, reflective, and fertile most of all when its memory and reflection are put at the service of its dreaming and fantastic side.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

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 woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

My men have become women, but the women men.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Such was the number of the barbarians, that when they shot forth their arrows the sun would be darkened by their multitude.” Dieneces, not at all frightened at these words, but making light of the Median numbers, answered “Our Trachinian friend brings us excellent tidings. If the Medes darken the sun, we shall have our fight in the shade.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

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