Plutarch

"Youth is the first victim of war; old age, the last."

"Humble thyself, for pride is the first step toward downfall."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths."

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Love of money is the root of all evil."

"The laws have no power by themselves; they can only work through character."

"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."

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

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will."

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

"Peace is the happiest state of mankind."

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

"To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him."

"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

"The false have not anything of their own."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and wants to turn everything to his own advantage."

"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"Medicine heals diseases of the body, but only philosophy can heal diseases of the soul."

"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."

"It is better to live a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Nothing more enhances authority than silence."