49 Quotes Found
"Evil gains work their punishment."
"Silence is an ornament for women."
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words."
"A short saying often contains much wisdom."
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."
"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."
"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth."
"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."
"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all."
"There is no success without hardship."
"Success is dependent on effort."
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."
"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."
"Always desire to learn something useful."
"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."
"Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."
"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."
"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."
"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."
"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."
"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."
"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."
"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."
"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."
"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."
"It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm."
"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."
"To him who is in fear everything rustles."
"For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night."
"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."
"It is best to live however one can be."
"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."
"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."
"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."
"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."
"Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day."
"Not even old age knows how to love death."
"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
"No lie ever reaches old age."
"A man growing old becomes a child again."