Quotes on history

“This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer.”

Plutarch
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“Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, But we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.”

Solon
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“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”

Heraclitus
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“Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great.”

Themistocles
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“Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time.”

Pericles
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“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”

Plutarch
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“To break a treaty is contempt for the gods. But to outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious-but profitable and sweet.”

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“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.”

Bion of Borysthenes
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“How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato’s maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery.”

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“Love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”

Hermann Hesse
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