Epigrammatist

Plato

Philosophy

Platonism

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

Gregory of Nazianzus

Religion

"I am an organ of the Lord, and sweetly... do I glorify the King, all atremble before Him."

🇺🇸Ashleigh Brilliant

Literature

1933–2025

"There's much to be said for immortality – for example, the saving on funeral expenses. And no more nonsense about "legacies," and about how anything you've accomplished will "live on after you."

Ptolemy

Science

"Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time."

🏛️Mimnermus

Literature

-669–-600

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

🇬🇷Simonides of Ceos

Business

-555–-468

"Simonides, Elegies: second century AD Photos of fragments"

🇬🇷Xenophanes

Philosophy

Pre-Socratic philosophy

-569–-477

"Article at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"