Quotes about greek-poet
greek-poet undergo
The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal. Menander
greek-poet men nor prophet waits
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. Sophocles
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It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
greek-poet whoever
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
greek-poet man nature
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
greek-poet justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
greek-poet man
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
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Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
greek-poet spilt
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
greek-poet somehow trust
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
greek-poet grows teaches time
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
greek-poet
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. Horace
greek-poet shall
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much. Hesiod
greek-poet
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
greek-poet man
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
greek-poet struggle
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
greek-poet time
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
greek-poet poems poetry written
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
greek-poet venture
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
greek-poet
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
greek-poet hour rustic waits
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
greek-poet stake
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
greek-poet until
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. Aristophanes