When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Euripides
One loyal friend is worth 10 thousand relatives
friendship
What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?
god
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
happiness
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
anger bitterness
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
poetry philosophical
Your very silence shows you agree.
silence
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head
war
The good and wise lead quite lives
life wisdom
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
anger life loss
government power tyranny deception evil elections deceit falsehood seduction
Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
hate tragedy
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
foolishness sense rationality reason understanding stupidity
Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?
hatred greek modern
The wisest men follow their own direction.
men wise
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