"The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women."

46 quotes

🏛️Heraclitus

Philosophy

http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/5292bf4397a31af9f202c33fbdd9dd90

-535–-475

"# Time is a game played beautifully by children."

38 quotes

🏛️Phaedrus (fabulist)

Philosophy

Epicureanism

-137–-69

"Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before."

"The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'"

"Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural."

"And Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece."

"The Histories or The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius:"

"Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go?"

11 quotes

🏛️Apollonius of Rhodes

Literature

-294–-214

"The Harpies swooped down through the clouds and snatched the food from his mouth and hands with their beaks, sometimes leaving him not a morsel, sometimes a few scraps, so that he might live and be tormented."

"Lord Brougham , The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Vol.3, Issue 1"

5 quotes

🏛️Hippocrates of Chios

Mathematics

-469–-409

"The Quadrature of the Circle and Hippocrates' Lunes at Convergence"

"I fled the headless darts of slanderous tongue."

"Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics."

"The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst."

"Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there."

"We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead."

"I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking."

9 quotes

🏛️Bion of Borysthenes

Philosophy

Cynicism

-325–-255

"Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."

13 quotes

🏛️Akhenaten

-1400–-1335

"Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus"

7 quotes

🏛️Alexander I of Macedon

1 quotes

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