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“הזמן הוא היקר שבטובין למי ששואף לדברים גדולים.”
“חשוב פעמיים לפני שתדבר, ותדבר כפליים טוב יותר.”
“כפי שטען אפלטון, להתרכז בעצמך פירושו להיות בודד.”
“אנשים שאינם שמחים בבית מבלים את רוב זמנם ב'אגורה'.”
“החינוך הוא מקורן האמיתי של המידות הטובות ושל הכנות.”
“הסוס גדול בעיניו של בעליו.”
“מי שיודע לדבר יודע גם מתי יש לדבר.”
“הובל בהדרגה לדרכים טובות יותר.”
“צריך לחיות ולא להתקיים בלבד.”
“While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”
“Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.”
“Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.”
“A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.”
“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.”
“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.”
“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.”
“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”
“To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”