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- Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
- Anaxagoras (500 BC - 428 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
- I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
- To him who is in fear everything rustles.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Acrisius
- Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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