Today Quotes
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You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.Heraclitus, On the Universe
The road up and the road down is one and the same.Heraclitus, On the Universe
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.Heraclitus, On the Universe
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Time as he grows old teaches all things.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon