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Quotes by Greek Authors
"But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves."
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."
"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
"How many things can I do without?"
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage."
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."
"Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed."
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