A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.
Plutarch Quotes
Once Antigonus was told his son was ill, and went to see him. At the door he met some young beauty. Going in, he sat down by the bed and took his pulse. “The fever,” said Demetrius, “has just left me.” “Oh, yes,” replied the father, “I met it going out at the door.”
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue.
Know thyself.
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity […]
Once Antigonus was told his son was ill, and went to see him. At the door he met some young beauty. Going in, he sat down by the bed and took his pulse. “The fever,” said Demetrius, “has just left me.” – ” Oh, yes,” replied the father, “I met it going out at the […]
If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
