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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. Plutarch

Adversity Man Prosperity Nothing Easily Direct More Than Harder

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. Plutarch

Courage Fear Cause Minded Consists Without Just Being Resolutely

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. Plutarch

Men Way Faults Moral City Habits Individuals Failings Induced Practices Making Private Private Lives Quicker Than Public Far Large Lives

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence. Polybius

Property Poverty Leader Others Honors Neighbors Daring Hopes Civil Feed Mere Soon Excluded Got Mob Ambitious Expense Being Produces Sweets Reign Livelihood Sufficiently Violence

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like. Protagoras

Way Like Knowing Exist Gods Either

Man is the measure of all things. Protagoras

Man All Things Measure Things

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly. Protagoras

Man Evil Willingly Well Does Unwillingly Intelligent Intelligent Man Anybody Them Who Deeds Base Aware Ever Believes Things

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. Saint Basil

Wisdom Food You Water Will Down Gave Hidden He Putting Longer Feet Sort How Line Discover Fishing Up Itself Than Swan Might Procure Then Notice Lowering Reason Deep Creator Now Brings Neck Below

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary. Saint Basil

Life Death God Health Darkness Light Evil Beginning Changes Say Generate Because Maker Does Nor Condition Conditions Contrary Disease Transitions Produced Naught Origin

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. Saint Basil

Soul Heart Thought Men Our Ruling Easily Prone Purity He Part Individually Primary Sin Major Knowing Concern Sins Impulse Intention Ordained Formed Who Therefore Each Element Received

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects. Saint Basil

Truth Mind Slow Own Sense Our Sight Recognition Eye All Things Oneself Seems Objects Only Sin Know Another Does Itself Which Use Even Hardest Things Defects External

If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them. Saint Basil

Life Me Men Own State Pleasures Ways Find Rather Between Accept Gospel Lord Than Common Refuse Common Ground Which Them Flesh Hard Choose Ground Serve

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians. Saint Basil

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all. Saint Basil

Education Time School Will Nothing Spent Though Critic Tell About He Knows How How Much How Much Time His Up Any Where Literary Cannot Us Much Chooses Who Letters Set

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses. Saint Basil

Love God Parents Animals Other Extraordinary Deficiency Superiority Because Irrational Offspring Senses Them Created Reason Who Each Among

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate. Solon

Death Best Man Happy Before He Call Dies Fortunate

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky. Solon

Man Happy Only He Until Dead Call Lucky

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead. Solon

Be Happy Happy No-One He Until Dead Said

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. Sophocles

Words Pleasure Some Miseries Forgetfulness Even Present Bring

You win the victory when you yield to friends. Sophocles

Friendship You Win Victory Friends Yield

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