Quotes from Ancient Times
Laertius Diogenes 3rd Century AD, Greek Philosopher, Writer, Quotations
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
All things are in common among friends.
Laertius Diogenes 3rd Century AD, Greek Philosopher, Writer
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
All things are in common among friends.
Diogenes of Sinope c.410-320 BC, Cynic Philosopher
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
No man is hurt but by himself.
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
Modesty is the color of virtue.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Evil does not exist at all....Evil in its nature is neither a thing nor does it bring anything forth...All things which are, by the very fact that they are, are good and come from good; but insofar as they are deprived of good, they are neither good nor do they exist.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Demosthenes, Greek Orator
What we wish, that we readily believe.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
Demosthenes c.383-322 BC, Greek Orator
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Memorable Quotes
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Perish those who said our good things before we did.
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins