Great Throughts Treasury

"Better a serpent than a stepmother!"

"black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue."

"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."

"But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind."

"But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought."

"But who tries to stand in the face of necessity inescapable I think he clumsy and foolish among human beings."

"But woe to him, who left to moan, reviews the hours of brightness gone."

"Character is a stamp of good repute on a person."

"Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives."

"Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances."

"Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burst into being, be a mighty bull, a hundred-headed snake, a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus!"

"Courage is the gift of character"

"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it."

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's? eyes."

"Delusive hope still points to distant good."

"Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead."

"Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life."

"Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind."

"Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force."

"Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for."

"Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world?"

"Doth someone say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words no undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, and doing thus are happier than those who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck."

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

"Easy to any human being, whatever his luck from intelligence, to take advice without a True, there is no benefit in haste without lingered."

"Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own-but only that; the rest belongs to chance."

"Even disasters violent that infect humans infect fatigue after a while, and donations winds do not retain strongly always, it is impossible to endure if lucky forever, since all things are changing and exchange positions with each other, the best men trusts constantly in the hopes, and despair vulnerable."

"Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves."

"For a silence and a chaste reserve is genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house."

"For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

"For silence and a chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house."

"For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended."

"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."

"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."

"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

"Friends show their love in times of trouble."

"Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing."

"Go home to your wife. Go bury her."

"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."

"God helps him who strives hard."

"Gods should not resemble men in their anger!"

"Good slaves [are concerned by] the adversities of their masters"

"Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event."

"Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps."

"Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care."

"Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor."

"Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it to thy breast, and make thee dead to thy children, to thine own spirit's pain? When the hand knows what it dares, when thine eyes look into theirs, shalt thou keep by tears unblended thy dividing of the slain? These be deeds Not for thee: these be things that cannot be!"

"Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour"

"He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep."