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"In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."

By Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

By Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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"It is better to be envied than pitied."

By Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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"In soft regions are born soft men."

By Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."

By Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

By Socrates, from Plutarch, Of Banishment

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"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil."

By Hippocrates, Decorum

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"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."

By Franklin D. Roosevelt

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"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."

By Plato, The Republic

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"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

By Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

By Aristotle, Parts of Animals

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"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."

By Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

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"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."

By Aristotle, Politics

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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."

By Aristotle, Politics

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"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."

By Aristotle, Rhetoric

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"I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade."

By Menander, Unidentified fragment

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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."

By Menander, Unidentified fragment

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"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one."