Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
The belly has no ears.
Words will build no walls.
Painting is silent poetry.
The great god Pan is dead.
Character is inured habit.
Barba non facit philosophum
A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Beauty is the flower of virtue.
Reason speaks and feeling bites
Philosophy is an act of living.
Philosophy is the art of living.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Character is long-standing habit.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
Either is both, and Both is neither.
Time is the wisest of all counselors.
I see the cure is not worth the pain.
Come back with your shield - or on it
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Character is simply habit long continued.
For the wise man, every day is a festival.
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
When the candles are out all women are fair.
To please the many is to displease the wise.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
What can they suffer that do not fear to die?
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
