Author Nationality

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Nationality : Greek

Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Nationality : Greek

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Nationality : Greek

In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Nationality : Greek

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Nationality : Greek

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Nationality : Greek

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Nationality : Greek

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

Nationality : Greek

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Nationality : Greek

The words of truth are simple.

Nationality : Greek