Plutarch

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"Wrongdoing often recoils upon the wrongdoer himself."

"It is unmanly to bewail what cannot be helped."

"The mind requires its due refreshment and relaxation."

"Fearing the Gods is not a sign of weakness but of wisdom."

"The most perfect political state must bestow virtue on its citizens."

"A clear conscience makes a soft pillow."

"He that strives with his enemy affords him a living sustenance and education."

"The virtuous soul that is pure and light will ascend to the divine."

"Humanity is not made better by the scaffold."

"Where the remedy is worse than the disease, suffer the disease."

"Suspicion is the poison of friendship."

"The same fire that softens butter hardens steel."

"He is unworthy of the honeycomb that shuns the hive because the bees have stings."

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."

"Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed."

"The human race may claim descent from the apes, but such descent cannot be both ascending and descending."

"Every man is surrounded by a cloud of comforters, who no sooner see him in trouble, than they come buzzing about him."

"He who boasteth of his wisdom is less than truly wise."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely mindful of what is at stake."

"When the flower blooms, bees come uninvited. Similarly, when a person becomes successful, people come uninvited."

"A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for."

"The richest of all purchases are those of time."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"He who cherishes a beautiful vision in his heart will one day see it manifest."

"Character is long-standing habit."

"Know thyself—this was one of the greatest maxims of antiquity."

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"The measure of a person is what they do with power."