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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Plutarch

Knowledge Power Possessions Would Rather Excel Excellent Than Extent

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Pythagoras

Anger Repentance Folly Begins Ends

Reason is immortal, all else mortal. Pythagoras

Else Immortal Mortal Reason

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer. Saint Basil

Words Sometimes Sickness Men Same Thing Sense Think Honey Destroyed Critic Eye See Writer Takes Force Frequently Does Sour Exist Inferior Diseased Taste Same Regard Place Which Notes Many Whose Thing Things

By nature, men desire the beautiful. Saint Basil

Beautiful Nature Men Desire

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates

Fear Everywhere Presumably Because Reverence Than Where Extension Wider

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. Sophocles

Man Every See Blind Off Far Near Things Every Man

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune. Sophocles

Good Man Good Man Those Misfortune Task Help

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. Sophocles

Impediment Cheat Ever Treaty

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. Sophocles

Trust Mistrust Blossoms Dies

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. Xenophon

Cause Hardships Will Leader Own Adhere Followers Steadfast Arduous Remaining Volition True Most Peril Forced Without Greatest Test True Test His Being Enduring Whether Moments

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. Aeschylus

Man Experience Fate Will Fears Believe Our Everything Evils Divine Had Mortals Fair Force Voyage Cheers Knows Always How Friends Blow Same Whenever Then Whoever Ills Flood

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus

Silence Proper Purifying Rites Misery Know Schooled Where Many Speech

The words of truth are simple. Aeschylus

Truth Words Simple

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

You Lose Shadow Beware Substance Grasping

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. Aesop

Those Scales Seldom Weighed Same Suffer Injuries

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. Aristophanes

You Walk Crab Cannot Straight Teach

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. Aristotle

Become Action Temperate Performing Brave Just Actions

No one loves the man whom he fears. Aristotle

Man Fears No-One He Loves Whom

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle

Law Fear Others Philosophy Only Without Being Gained

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle

Happiness Life Politics Political Power Politicians Aiming Something Beyond Also Because Glory Always Political Life Itself Leisure

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Aristotle

Character Disposition Virtue Virtuous Statesman Moral Citizens Moral Character Performance Namely Most Fellow Fellow Citizens His Anxious Produce Certain Actions

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others. Democritus

Better Own Others Those Destroy Errors Than

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