PostsCommentsPayoutshistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 5 years agoancient greece quotes 484400"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding." **Epicurus **history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 5 years agoancient greece quotes 175210"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly." Epictetushistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 935609"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." **Socrates **history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 920578"The beginning is the chiefest part of any work." Plato Quohistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 376646"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." Aristotlehistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 368274"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." Plato Quohistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 663248"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which…history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 945056"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." Epictetushistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 228133"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." Epictetushistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 476947"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." Plato Quohistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 658622"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils." Plato Quohistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 66871"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." Epictetushistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 192985"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato Quohistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 269062"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom…history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 764656"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music." **Diogenes **history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 653863"Change in all things is sweet." Aristotlehistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 865205"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other…history-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 222220"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." Plato Quohistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 190851"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." Epictetushistory-nerd (42)in #quotes • 6 years agoancient greece quotes 479565"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door." **Plutarch **