Plutarch

"Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth."

"Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."

"He who confers a favor should at once forget it."

"Death does not come to the old man to ask if he is ready."

"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

"The mind of the wise is always serene."

"That which fortune has not given, prudence cannot mend."

"Let husbands know their wives excel them in nothing but in this, that they are women."

"Wrongdoing can only be avoided if those who are not wronged feel as much indignation at it as those who are."

"The very life of the dramatist is stolen from the life of mankind."

"Thou shalt not believe all that thou hearest, but thou shalt give ear unto the wise and good men."

"Courage is the first requisite of a statesman."

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."

"The man who is just and faithful in his commerce is just and faithful in all dealings with his fellow men."

"Historians make oral traditions permanent."

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease."

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."

"As salt seasons food and brings out its flavor, so does imagination enliven the everyday."

"Some entertain themselves by hunting an idea in the mist until they shoot it."

"It is not for the benefit of the creditors that the wise preserve credit."

"Education is the movement from darkness into light."

"As the old saw says, all things are hard before they are easy."

"The greatest and most glorious day is that which comes after tomorrow."

"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"The mind is not a vessel to fill but a spirit to awaken."

"There is no greater evil one man can inflict on another than the taking of his life."

"The gods have given nearly all men some gift; few lack talent entirely."

"When a man is made of better metal, he does not sound as hollow under a stick as an inferior one."

"Debt is a terrible school, but few are graduated."