Alexander the Great Video

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

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.

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

The fact speak for themselves.

Learn what you are and be such.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing

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.

He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.

Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

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.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

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.

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Who gossips to you will gossip about you.

Complain to one who can help you.

What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.

The right man comes at the right time.