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Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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It is no flattery to give a friend a due character for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
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Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.
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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon? Antagoras replied, Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?
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Custom is almost a second nature.
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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Beauty is the flower of virtue.
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Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to praise the gods and educate the youth. In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
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The belly has no ears.
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
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