Quotes from Ancient Times
Caecus~Critias Quotes
I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.
Speak no evil of the dead.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Love of money is the mother of all evils.
It was man who first made men believe in gods.
Is not living at all not better than living badly?
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.
Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
Memorable Quotes
A severe war lurks under the show of peace.
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
To little men, gods send little things.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
He has the most who is most content with the least.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Wisdom serves as a brake on the youth, as comfort to the old, as wealth to the poor, and an adornment to the rich.
Insightful Quotes cards
Is not living at all not better than living badly?
Insult shames the mocker, not the one who receives it.
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
Keeping quiet is how you learn to listen; listening is how you learn to speak; speaking is how you learn to be silent.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.