Julian (Roman Emperor) now forbade pheasants, or sausages, or even sow's udder to be served up to him, contenting himself with the cheap...

A friend of Mark Twain could not find a job: He said, with an outburst of pathetic longing, “If I could only get a job at the Pioneer!”...

a maxim of mine that whenever a man preferred being fed by any other man to starving in independence he ought to be shot. Twain, Mark....

The mere mention of the name of Demosthenes brings up the image of the greatest perfection in eloquence before the mind of the person who...

The bravest commanders do not allow me to linger any longer on these frivolous stories. His fellow citizens were angry with Epaminondas,...

Your charming boy should learn Hesiod by heart and never forget ‘Sweat before excellence,’ etc.8 8The Gods set sweat in front of...

…even if we fail, those who make an effort to get to the top will climb higher than those who from the start despair of emerging where...

Democritus the philosopher said, “Speech is the shadow of action.” Diogenes. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Books 6-10....

The philosopher Pythagoras is said to have advised his disciples as follows: Always to say on entering their own doors: “Where did I...

Men of fine genius are readily reminded of things, but those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best. Plutarch....