“Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."”
The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 14
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52 Iphicrates
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
Political Precepts
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
“Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.”
Platonic Questions, viii, 4
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Life of Romulus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."”
Life of Caius Marius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life of Sertorius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.”
Life of Fabius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variante: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Of Superstition
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, 11
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone."”
47 Pyrrhus
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
Life of Cicero
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