Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
Aristotle
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
Achilles
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.
Isocrates
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
Plato
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.
Ptolemy
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
The Iliad Homer
The fact speak for themselves.
Demosthenes
Learn what you are and be such.
Pindar
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing
Phocion
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
Sanskrit Poem
He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.
Saadi
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.
Caligula
Ask a lot, but take what is offered.
Assyrian Proverb
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.
Buddha
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Citium Zeno
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
Pericles
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Caesar Augustus
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.
Mikhail Strabo
Fear makes men believe the worst.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.
Athenaeus
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.
Barbara Burrow
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
Arabian Proverb
Who gossips to you will gossip about you.
Turkish Proverb
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb
What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.