“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”
Of Inquisitiveness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."”
Of Inquisitiveness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.”
Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax
Laconic Apophthegms
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."”
Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Consolation to Apollonius
“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
62 Eudæmonidas
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
Life of Demosthenes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)