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- 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
- Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
- 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
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
- Anaxagoras (500 BC - 428 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
- Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth! - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus Rex
- 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
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