He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things.
He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser man.
But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another’s wisdom, this is a useless man.
Hesiod
Tag: Quote of the Day
28APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
27APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick
26APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied, “All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight.”
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
25APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)
24APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
23APR2022 – Quote of the Day
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
22APR2022 – Quote of the Day
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
21APR2022 – Quote of the Day
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
20APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)