To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themse...
But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.
Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "h...
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Seventy years I regard as the limit of the life of man. In these seventy years are contained, without reckoning intercalary months, twenty-five thousand and two hundred days. Add an intercalary month...
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
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.
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.
If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision...
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.