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"What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel."
Of Fortune.
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Of Fortune.
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"Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.""
Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great.
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"When the candles are out all women are fair."
Conjugal Precepts.
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"Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead."
Whether 't was rightfully said, Live Concealed.
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"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Of Banishment.
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"Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land."
Symposiacs. Book. viii. Question viii.
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"Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades."
Symposiacs. Book. viii. Question ix.
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"Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted."
Symposiacs. Book viii. Question ix.
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"The great god Pan is dead."
Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.
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"I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up."
Of Isis and Osiris.
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"When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this.""
Of Isis and Osiris.
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"There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice."
Of those whom God is slow to punish.
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"It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions."
Of those whom God is slow to punish.
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"He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush."
Of Garrulity.
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"We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature."
Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1.
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"When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Action;" and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action.""
Lives of the Ten Orators.
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"Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises."
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.
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"Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.""
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.
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"The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward."
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.
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"Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action."
Political Precepts.
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"Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees? . . . Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us.""
Political Precepts.
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"Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.""
Political Precepts.
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"It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest."
Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7.
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"Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does."
Which are the most crafty, Water or Land Animals? 7.
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"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
Against Colotes.
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"Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting."
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned. 3.
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"As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.""
Platonic Questions. i.
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"Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world."
Platonic Questions. viii. 4.
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