Quotes from Ancient Times
930BC-278BC Quotations
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.
Love is inseparable from knowledge.
It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Macherbal ~ Maximus Quotes
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.
There is but one genuine love-potion - consideration.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.