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Sappho ~ Stanlicus Quotations

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Sappho fl. BC 600-, Greek Lyric Poet

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho fl. BC 600-, Greek Lyric Poet

Death must be an Evil - and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Sappho fl. BC 600-, Greek Lyric Poet

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.

Stanislaus I

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Sirach Book by Ben Sira

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

Shahazad

I want eternity. I was born for greater things…

St Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1568)

In all you do remember the end of your life, and then you will never sin.

Sirach Book by Ben Sira

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

Shahazad

The journey begins, where your imagination ends.

Shahazad

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Speech is the mirror of action.

Solon

A wise man is cautious in everything.

Sirach Book by Ben Sira

One who trusts others is light minded.

Sirach Book by Ben Sira

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Sappho

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Sappho

Although only breath, words which I speak are immortal.

Sapho, Fragments

A in a mans life is a state of mind, it keeps changing.

Shahazad

A in a mans life is a state of mind, it keeps changing.

Shahazad

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Solon 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

Solomon 10th B.C. King of Israel

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman

Inconsistency is a part of life, consistency is a part of.

Shahazad

A in a mans life is a state of mind, it keeps changing.

Shahazad
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Men of real merit, whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge are not yet to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.
Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.
Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers, others call a fleet the most beautiful of sights the dark earth offers, but I say it's what- ever you love best.
For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be.
When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.

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