Sublime

The anecdote is an elaborate fiction, but all the same it expresses a profound truth about the Hellenic mind. It embodies Apollo’s maxims at Delphi—“nothing in excess” and “know yourself”—and was a bleak reminder that the fate of human beings lay not in themselves, but (as Homer put it) “on the knees of the gods.”

sages accumulate nothing but the more they do for others the greater their existence the more they give to others the greater their abundance

for to the good poor man old age cannot be a light burden, nor can a bad rich man ever have peace with himself.

Esperar é próprio do homem — respondeu Ezequiel —, e do homem justo, esperar com confiança; do injusto, com medo.

Slow and steady wins the race, but an ego will end it.

“The cat in gloves catches no mice.”

As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.-