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„Ak budete vedieť ako počúvať, budete profitovať aj z tých, ktorí hovoria zle.“

„Myseľ nie je loď, ktorá sa má naplniť, ale oheň, ktorý sa má zapáliť.“

„Mlčanie v pravý čas je múdrosť a je lepšie ako akákoľvek reč.“

„Človek sa nemôže mýliť, ale múdri a dobrí sa zo svojich chýb a omylov učia múdrosti pre budúcnosť.“

„To, čo dosiahneme v našom vnútri, zmení aj našu vonkajšiu realitu.“

„Najstaršia a najväčšia láska je láska k životu.“

„Kto miluje, ten nevšímavosť nemá rád.“

„Vychádzajúce slnko privádza so svetlom činy a myšlienky všetkých ľudí. Ako vraví Demokritos, s novým dňom ľudia dostávajú nové myšlienky a z túžby po vzájomnom priateľstve, akoby napätým lanom stiahnutí, schádzajú sa každý odinakiaľ k práci.“

„Mlčky a bez slova sa v spoločnosti napchávať je vlastnosťou svíň.“

„Nádej je spoločná všetkým. Kto nič nemá, má aspoň nádej.“

„V cnosti je cena života, nie v dlhom veku.“

„Práca je človeku ako vlaha rastline - živí ho, ale môže ho aj zatopiť.“

„Priateľovi ničím nemôžeš ublížiť viac, ako keď rozdeľuješ cit, alebo čas, ktorý by si mohol stráviť s priateľom, s niekým druhým.“

„Víno je medzi nápojmi najušľachtilejšie, medzi liekmi najchutnejšie a medzi pokrmami najpríjemnejšie!“

„Dobrý manžel si zaslúži väčšiu chválu ako dobrý senátor.“

„Keď znášame chyby svojich priateľov, prečo neznášame chyby svojich detí?“

„Nič nie je také hybké ako jazyk ženy, nič nie je záludnejšie ako výčitky, nič nie je hroznejšie ako zlosť, nič háklivejšie ako jej slzy.“

„Obraz je mlčiaca báseň a báseň je hovoriaci obraz.“

„Po dlhej únave odpočinok je korením práce.“

„Verte, že robia chyby tí, ktorí spolu spia len pre rozkoš, ale ak sa nejako pohnevajú a pohašteria, ľahnú si oddelene a zabúdajú práve títo najviac vzývať Afroditu, ktorá bývala v podobných prípadoch najlepšou lekárkou.“

„Luk sa láme, keď je napnutý, ale duša stráca svoje sily nečinnosťou.“

„Keď sa Lapisa pýtali, ako získal bohatstvo, odpovedal: Veľký majetok som získal ľahko, malý len po dlhej a veľkej námahe.“

„Keď sú sviece zhasnuté, všetky ženy sú krásne.“

„Cnosť je dobrý zvyk.“

„Človek môže mať veľa priateľov, ale málo spoľahlivých priateľov. Nepotrebujem priateľa, ktorý prikyvuje na všetko, čo poviem. Môj tieň kýva presnejšie.“

„Dúha nie je nič iné, ako odraz slnečného lúča. Ani rozprávka nie je nič iné, ako zahalená pravda.“

„Je ťažké určený osud predvídať, no ešte ťažšie je vyvarovať sa mu.“

„Keby bol svet spravodlivý, nebola by potrebná udatnosť.“

„Konať dobre - to si vyžaduje svoj čas a svoj vek. Dobré konanie sa líši od zlého práve správnou mierou.“

„Len odvážne ohováraj, vždy sa niečo ujme.“

„Ľudia sú takí neprajní, že sa človek viac zarmucuje pre prednosti iných, ako aby sa radoval zo svojich vlastných.“

„Nájdite mestá, kde nevedia čítať, mestá bez kráľov, bez peňazí, divadiel, palácov, ale mesto bez chrámov a bez bohov, bez obetí… nikto veru nevidel a neuvidí nikdy.“

„Najdôležitejšie a najpríjemnejšie korenie je zdravie.“

„Nič na našom tele nevybavila príroda tak starostlivo ako jazyk - je dôkladne zatvorený a zuby okolo neho stoja ako stráž.“

„Nie je možné milovať a zostať múdrym.“

„Nikdy nepreukazujte dobro, ak nie ste ochotní prijať nevďak.“

„Oddych je korením práce.“

„Priateľ, ktorý sa mení podľa toho, ako sa mením ja, ktorý prikyvuje na všetko, na čo ja, nie je mi prínosom. To ešte lepšie robí môj tieň.“

„Sklon ľudskej povahy k neprajnosti je taký, že sa človek pre úspechy iných trápi väčšmi, než sa raduje zo svojich vlastných.“

“Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.”

“To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.”

“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”

“Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?”

“Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: "For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother."”

“Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.”

“For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.”

“Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.”

“Yet through Alexander (the Great) Bactria and the Caucasus learned to revere the gods of the Greeks … Alexander established more than seventy cities among savage tribes, and sowed all Asia with Greek magistracies … Egypt would not have its Alexandria, nor Mesopotamia its Seleucia, nor Sogdiana its Prophthasia, nor India its Bucephalia, nor the Caucasus a Greek city, for by the founding of cities in these places savagery was extinguished and the worse element, gaining familiarity with the better, changed under its influence.”

“Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will; but hear."”

“Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."”

“Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees?… Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us."”

“Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”

“There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither."”

“Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.”

“Did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus sups with Lucullus?”

“Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.”

“Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."”

“Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.”

“We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.”

“For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.”

“Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me."”

“When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Action;" and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action."”

“Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.”

“He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."”

“Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.”

“When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief."”

“Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.”

“You ask of me then for what reason it was that Pythagoras abstained from eating of flesh. I for my part do much admire in what humor, with what soul or reason, the first man with his mouth touched slaughter, and reached to his lips the flesh of a dead animal, and having set before people courses of ghastly corpses and ghosts, could give those parts the names of meat and victuals, that but a little before lowed, cried, moved, and saw; how his sight could endure the blood of slaughtered, flayed, and mangled bodies; how his smell could bear their scent; and how the very nastiness happened not to offend the taste, while it chewed the sores of others, and participated of the saps and juices of deadly wounds.”