TuesdayFeb 17, 2026
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Bury me on my face, said Diogenes the Cynic; and when he was asked why, he replied, Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, 'That when they speak truth they are not believed.'
All things are in common among friends.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals and the most silly.
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'
Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; ... that laws were like cobwebs, for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
Chilo advised, 'not to speak evil of the dead.'
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Democritus says, 'But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down.'
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, 'The dream of a waking man.'
I am looking for an honest man.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
I am a citizen of the world.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Modesty is the color of virtue.
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