Quotes

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

God always strives together with those who strive.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Time brings all things to pass.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.