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- The road up and the road down is one and the same.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- A man's character is his fate.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), 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 (527 BC - 460 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
- Themistocles (527 BC - 460 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
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