None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.
Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.
Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?
I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.
Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.
I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.
Sometimes you have positional authority, and that is very hopeful. But the reality of it is the nation responds to moral authority, when we believe that our president has the entire nation`s best interests at heart.