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- Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
- Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
- Bion (~100 BC), from Plutarch, Water and Land Animals
- Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
- Pyrrhus (319 BC - 272 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- An exile's life is no life.
- Leonidas of Tarentum (290 BC - 220 BC), from The Greek Anthology, 1973, Peter Jay
- Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
- Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
- To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
- Quintus Fabius Maximus (275 BC - 203 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus
- Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus
- There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Captivi
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