Ancient “Quotes”….

“Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.” ~Democritus

“We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.” ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilian

“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.” ~ Pericles

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” ~ Propertius Sextus

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.” ~ Thucydides

“It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love.” ~ Gaius Valerius Catullus

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides

“Nothing can be created from nothing.” ~ Lucretius

“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent: then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, not too sorrowful in misfortune.” ~ Socrates

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.” ~ Euripides

“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.” ~ Aesop

“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.” ~ Demosthenes

“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.” ~ Cicero

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” ~ Demosthenes

“You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.” ~ Tertullian

“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.” ~ Claudius

“Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.” ~ Cicero

“Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.” ~ Pythagoras

“Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.” ~ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.” ~ Confucius

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.” ~ Euripides

“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.” ~ Maxims of Ptahhotep

“Man is the measure of all things.” ~ Protagoras

“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.” ~ Polybius

“Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.” ~ Solon

“Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.” ~ Propertius Sextus

“The past is certain, the future obscure.” ~ Thales

“Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.” ~ Propertius Sextus

“Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves, that is, our ideas about things.” ~ Epictetus

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~ Demosthenes

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.” ~ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence.” ~ Pythagoras

“Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.” ~ Plotinus

“Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.” ~ Tertullian

“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.” ~ Marcus Porcius Cato

“Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.” ~ Apuleius

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” ~  Democritus

“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.” ~ Propertius Sextus

“Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.” ~ Pericles

“Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.” ~ Agesilaus the Second

“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired.” ~ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.” ~ Democritus