John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Plutarch. (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120) (continued) |
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| Said Periander, “Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.” 1 |
| The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. 14. |
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| Socrates said, “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” 2 |
| How a Young Man ought to hear Poems. 4. |
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| And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero’s crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, “I have found it! Eureka!” |
| Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus. 11. |
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| Said Scopas of Thessaly, “We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.” 3 |
| Of the Love of Wealth. |
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| That proverbial saying, “Ill news goes quick and far.” |
| Of Inquisitiveness. |
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| A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, “I do not believe you can do as much.” “True,” said he, “but every goose can.” |
| Remarkable Speeches. |
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| Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. |
| Of Hearing. 6. |
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| It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration,—nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. |
| Of Hearing. 6. |
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| Antiphanes said merrily, that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon |
| Note 1. Spare your breath to cool your porridge.—Francis Rabelais: Works, book v. chap. xxviii. [back] |
| Note 2. See Fielding, Quotation 10. He used to say that other men lived to eat, but that he ate to live.—Diogenes Laertius: Socrates, xiv. [back] |
| Note 3. See Holmes, Quotation 28. [back] |