"Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."
"Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."
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"As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess."
"There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law."
"Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."
"Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad."
"Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."