Byzantine Empire
Quotes & Thinkers from Byzantine Empire
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Plato
Philosophy
Platonism
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Proclus
Philosophy
Neoplatonism
"For this, to draw a right line from every point, to every point, follows the definition, which says, that a line is the flux of a point, and a right line an indeclinable and inflexible flow."
11 quotes
Constantius II
Religion
"Even a high-ranking man convicted of wizardry will face torture."
7 quotes
Maximus the Confessor
Religion
1 quotes
John Chrysostom
Politics
349–407
"We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart."
38 quotes
Belisarius
Military
"For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided."
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Diadochos of Photiki
Religion
"The eye of the soul cannot be led astray when its veil, by which I mean the body, is refined to near-transparency through self-control."
10 quotes
Cassiodorus
Literature
487–580
2 quotes
John the Merciful
Mathematics
550–619
"If in order to help the needy one is able, without ill-will, to strip the rich down to their shirts, one is not doing wrong, especially if they are heartless skinflints."
1 quotes
Gregory Palamas
Religion
1296–1359
"The soul completely dominated by its desire for spiritual instruction is never sated."
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Notable Quotes
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
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"You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!"
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"It is difficult to set forth any of the greater ideas, except by the use of examples; for it would seem that each of us knows everything that he knows as if in a dream and then again, when he is as it were awake, knows nothing of it all."
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"Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike."
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"It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself."
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