Moralia Quotes

“The great god Pan is dead.”

“Custom is almost a second nature.”

“'Tis a wise saying, Drive on your own track.”

“When the candles are out, all women are alike.”

“Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.”

“Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.”

“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”

“An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.”

“The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.”

“For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”

“When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.”

“Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.”

“Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."”

“According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.”

“There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.”

“He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.”

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”

“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”

“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”

“Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."”