Plutarch

"To the sick, while the pain lasts, a bitter potion tastes bitter."

"When a man's strength fails him, he may still attempt the impossible."

"There is no shame in defeat so long as the spirit was unconquered."

"The wounds of good friends cut deeper, but heal better."

"Science is organized knowledge; wisdom is organized life."

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lies in good education."

"What did the traveller see at the end of the path? Only the path itself."

"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."

"In repose, the mind finds what it could not discover in action."

"The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds prepared to receive them."

"An honest man is hurt by praise unjustly bestowed."

"Nothing great or noble can be done without risk."

"There is but one disease: ingratitude."

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

"Time is a river of passing events."

"The friendship between equals is the most noble."

"Ignorance, when not one's own, is contemptible."

"Happiness requires both freedom from pain and engagement of the soul."

"Men are often generous in praise of those they envy."

"The remedy of injustice is not to do injustice again."

"One cannot live pleasantly without living virtuously."

"The greatest powers are often hidden in the smallest things."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"For it is a true proverb that 'knowledge itself is power.'"