General Sayings

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!

These men, Qin Shi Huang declared, claimed to be sorcerers. If they really had magic powers, then they could bring themselves back to life.

Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.

If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

An honest man is always a child.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.

But among the blessed immortals uncontrollable laughter went up as they saw Hephaestos bustling about the palace.

I want to tell you something but good taste. Restrains me.

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.

O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your own failure to appreciate theirs.

All living beings are miserable because of their own actions.