Plutarch

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

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity."

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing to explain it."

"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."

"The future depends on what you do today."

"Fishes are not in the habit of eating wood."

"When a man's life is at stake no delays are permissible."

"Effective leaders have the courage to take risks and the wisdom to learn from failure."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"To fall in love is to create a religion whose god is fallible."

"Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason leaves them and they know not what they do."

"As Plato said, wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The wounds of the mind are harder to heal than those of the body."

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

"The body is the shell of the soul."

"Prosperity asks for thankfulness; adversity demands it still more."

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

"Nothing thrusts itself upon us when we are not watching for it."

"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

"The great man is he that not permitting himself to be dwarfed and lost by the crowd."

"Cunning is but the small access of wit."

"Maladies of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body."

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."

"He is a wise man who does not give the right answer to an insane question."

"The greatest reward for a man's toils is not what he gets for them, but what he becomes by them."

"It is not he that has little, but he that craves more, that is poor."

"Antidotes are poisons, too."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"The discipline of suffering often educates to virtue those who are subjected to it."