| Quotes |
Topic |
| Blushes | Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." |
| Education | The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. |
| Existence | Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. |
| Intemperance | He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. |
| Possession | Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him." |
| Proverbs | The truly noble mind has no resentments. |
| Proverbs | And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. |
| Proverbs | Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. |
| Proverbs | If gaming does an aged sire entice, Then my young master swiftly learns the vice. |
| Proverbs | None but the brave deserve the fair. |
| Proverbs | Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. |
| Proverbs | Sweet is pleasure after pain. |
| Proverbs | Take the goods the gods provide thee. |
| Proverbs | To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. |
| Reason | Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. |
| Wine and Spirits | When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Laertius Diogenes, |
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